Nancy Wake Quotes

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, (also known as Nancy Fiocca)was a New Zealand-born nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry. The official historian of the SOE, M.R.D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her".Wake was living in Marseille with her French industrialist husband, Henri Fiocca, when the war broke out. ...more

Birth: August 30, 1912 - Death: August 07, 2011

I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

Topic(s): Men , War , Hate

I’ve always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I’m very natural.

Topic(s): Wells , Natural

I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn’t kill more.

Topic(s): Sorry

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