Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Martha Gellhorn
- I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
- I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
- It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
- The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
- Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
- After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
- Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 (1908-1998) was an American writer, journalist, and war correspondent. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and studied at Bryn Mawr College and later at the University of Madrid.
In the 1930s, Gellhorn worked as a journalist for several publications, including The New Republic, Collier’s Weekly, and The Nation. She gained fame for her coverage of the Spanish Civil War, where she was one of the few female correspondents. She also reported on World War II, the Vietnam War, and conflicts in Central America and the Middle East.
Gellhorn wrote more than a dozen books, including novels, short story collections, and memoirs. Her most famous works include “The Trouble I’ve Seen” (1936), “A Stricken Field” (1940), “The Face of War” (1959), and “Travels with Myself and Another” (1978). She was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway.
Throughout her career, Gellhorn was known for her commitment to reporting on the human impact of war and social injustice. She received numerous awards for her writing and journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club’s Grand Prize, and the Ernie Pyle Memorial Award.
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