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I feel very troubled in the head and heart. — Martha Gellhorn

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. — Martha Gellhorn

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started. — Martha Gellhorn

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. — Martha Gellhorn

The English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist. — Martha Gellhorn

People miss a great deal by being sensible. — Martha Gellhorn

He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror. — Martha Gellhorn

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station. — Martha Gellhorn

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without. — Martha Gellhorn

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed. — Martha Gellhorn

I didn't write. I just wandered about. — Martha Gellhorn

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it ... seemed a defeat. — Martha Gellhorn

The ends never justify the means because IT never ends. — Martha Gellhorn

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. — Martha Gellhorn

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. — Martha Gellhorn

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand. — Martha Gellhorn

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. — Martha Gellhorn

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders. — Martha Gellhorn

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. — Martha Gellhorn

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be. — Martha Gellhorn

I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don't really know what else is worth having. — Martha Gellhorn

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. — Martha Gellhorn

You have to stop living in order to write. — Martha Gellhorn

The private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world. — Martha Gellhorn

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life. — Martha Gellhorn

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

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first. — Martha Gellhorn

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be. — Martha Gellhorn

What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed? — Martha Gellhorn

The world's fat is badly divided. — Martha Gellhorn

I followed the war wherever I could reach it. — Martha Gellhorn

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again. — Martha Gellhorn

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness. — Martha Gellhorn

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs. — Martha Gellhorn

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers. — Martha Gellhorn

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. — Martha Gellhorn

travel is compost for the mind — Martha Gellhorn

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began. — Martha Gellhorn

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job. — Martha Gellhorn

I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future. — Martha Gellhorn

[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

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. — Martha Gellhorn

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people. — Martha Gellhorn

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. — Martha Gellhorn

But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one's own. — Martha Gellhorn

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others. — Martha Gellhorn

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it — Martha Gellhorn

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad. — Martha Gellhorn