Barbara murphy

“the U.S. was the worst-governed country in the world,” that Roosevelt wanted war “at the instigation of the Jews, who controlled industry and the press,” and that England was “a paper tiger with its little fleet and meager air force.”
― Jason Fagone, The Woman Who Smashed Codes

“were going to be released, for fear of compromising Special”
― Scott Turow, Testimony

“He suspected there was “something wrong with her ‘upstairs.’” How else to explain this “unhinged meltdown”2 in which she dared defy him? It could have been Elizabeth confronting McFarland in the fall of 1860. It was Nancy Pelosi versus Donald Trump in October 2019. History favors reruns. Because that pernicious accusation of insanity, deliberately intended to undermine, haunts the annals of history like a spirit photograph, unsettling and at times unseen.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“It was as if my love for Abdul made me see other people’s pain. But it also made me blind to the evil in the world.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Honor