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“The historical record often neglects certain kinds of stories. For example, in the Library of Congress, OSS veterans helped catalogue the OSS records; this was a good service to the country, but they often catalogued the names of men and not the names of women. In memoirs that men wrote about the war years, the names of women are, likewise, often absent – they’re “a shapely analyst.” Say or “a woman from Harvard.” I’m grateful to have a way to fill in the stories of figures who, despite their importance, don’t receive their due space in the archives.”
― Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
― Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
“In the United States, fascism is on the rise. Libraries are under attack. Some pundits ask why universities bother with departments that don’t just teach students to write computer code. Violent bigotry is fashionable again, and for many people, the appeal of politics is the opportunity to impose cruelty on others. The admonition to remember has never seemed so important.”
― Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
― Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
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“Women, as you must know, have a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage than men. Men usually want a mate with them.”63”
― Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
― Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
“People say that certain sounds can melt a heart of stone. If there is anyone who has that sort of a heart―which I doubt (as far as I am aware hearts are made of fibrous materials, fluid sacs and pumping mechanisms)―if anyone does have a heart composed of granite or flint and therefore not at all prone to melting but just conceivably meltable when exposed to very beautiful sounds, then the sounds made by my cherrywood harp, I am confident, would do it. However, I had a feeling the heart of Ellie the Exmoor Housewife was completely lacking in stony components. I had a feeling it was made of much softer stuff.”
― Ellie and the Harpmaker
― Ellie and the Harpmaker
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