[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“This was not the velvet embracing desert sky at El Geneina; this was infinite space. The idea of no boundaries, no end, is terrifying in the abstract and much worse if you are looking at it. The far-off stars were an icy crust; the darkness beyond the stars was more than I could handle. The machinery that keeps me going… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
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