Marcella

“It was not easy being a smart girl in the 1940s. People thought you were annoying.”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

“And do you still not understand that in France, there is nothing more important than a meal? Nothing!”
― Nell Goddin, The Château Murder

“I have been feeling a bit ‘under the weather’—a maritime expression, as you probably know, taken from a seasick person going below decks on the ‘weather side,’ where the storm is hitting—”
― Nell Goddin, An Official Killing

“In 1942, only about 4 percent of American women had completed four years of college.”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II