All Martha Gellhorn Quotes
- I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. Bed
- If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat. Conviction
- Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's… America
- The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be. Cause
- I followed the war wherever I could reach it. Followed
- 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… Appreciate
- I didn't write. I just wandered about. Funny
- I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began. Began
- 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… Know Anything
- I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life. Footnote
- I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future. Any
- America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged… America
- In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of… Accustomed
- People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It… Ago
- It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. Alleged
- 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
- 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,… Age
- I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. Complication
- Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. Citizen
- 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. Appetizing
- It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Atrophy
- 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… Boy
- 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… Accepted
- 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… Abandoned
- 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… Camps