Spy Quote by Harriet Rubin Download Open image “Women have always been spies” — Harriet Rubin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Spy Women
The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years,… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives. — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim… — Jane Harman Copy Share Image
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far.… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them. — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them. — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny. — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
“Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.” — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know. — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic.… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image