Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.
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It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
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You have to stop living in order to write.
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All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.
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Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
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perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.
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From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
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In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.
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Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
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I feel very troubled in the head and heart.
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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
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In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.
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We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.