Nancy Wake

'I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas. A woman could get out of a lot of trouble that a man could not.'

— WAKE, on wartime service by women. The New Zealand-born British agent was one of the most decorated Allied female spies of World War II

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