Gina

“The funny thing was, I never thought of myself as a spy. Surely the craft took more than smiling and laughing at stupid jokes and pretending to be interested in everything these men said. There wasn't a name for it back then, but it was at that first party that I became a Swallow: a woman who uses her God-given talents to gain information - talents I'd been accumulating since puberty, had refined in my twenties, and then perfected in my thirties. These men thought they were using me, but it was always the reverse; my power was making them think it wasn't.”
― Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

“We pretend to want things we don't want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt