"I do not see myself as a footnote…" — Martha Gellhorn

"I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life."

— Martha Gellhorn

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41 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an…
The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good…
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes…
I didn't write. I just wandered about.
I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I…
I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any…
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are…
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed…

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More Footnote Quotes

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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not… — Robert K. Merton
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father… — Danny DeVito
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I… — David Fincher
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the… — Erich Fromm
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years… — Richard E. Berendzen
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster. — Hal Borland
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen… — Mark Twain
When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of… — Trent Reznor
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen
Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far. — Robert Breault
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the… — Alfonso X of Castile

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