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Martha Gellhorn

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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.


— Martha Gellhorn


#feminism #hate #love #marriage #married-life

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.


— Martha Gellhorn


#self-esteem #survival #self-esteem

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.


— Martha Gellhorn


#life

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.


— Martha Gellhorn


#injustice #society #injustice

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.


— Martha Gellhorn


#appreciates #country #did #everyone #families

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.


— Martha Gellhorn


#authorities #been #beggars #camp #constantly

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.


— Martha Gellhorn


#gradually #habit #homey #i #i came

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.


— Martha Gellhorn


#followed #i #reach #war #wherever

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.


— Martha Gellhorn


#collected #england #ever #food #money

I didn't write. I just wandered about.


— Martha Gellhorn


#i #just #wandered #write






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Did you know about Martha Gellhorn?

She first went to Gastonia North Carolina where Martha Gellhorn used her observation and communication skills to report on how the people of that town were affected by the Great Depression. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8 1908 – February 15 1998) was an American novelist travel writer and journalist considered by the London Daily Telegraph among others to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. The pair celebrated Christmas of 1937 together in Barcelona.

At the age of 89 ill and almost completely blind Martha Gellhorn committed suicide. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8 1908 – February 15 1998) was an American novelist travel writer and journalist considered by the London Daily Telegraph among others to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway from 1940 to 1945.

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