Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn
Martha Ellis Gellhornwas an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, who is now considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. At the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind, she died in 1998 of an apparent suicide. The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth8 November 1908
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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, the human race in the grand scheme of things.
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
The world's fat is badly divided.
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.
From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
travel is compost for the mind
Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.
In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
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.
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.