Martha Gellhorn

thumb|right|It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American war correspondent and novelist. She covered nearly every war during the twentieth century. Quotes I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same. Notebook entry, quoted in Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (2003) by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88. 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. Letter as quoted in Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead, pg. 142. War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Letter as quoted in Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (1978) by Martha Gellhorn. External links Martha Gellhorn at Kirjasto Review: Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn (Salon.com) Review of "Martha Gellhorn: A Life" in The Age (17 January 2004) Martha Gellhorn talks about the Spanish Civil War (BBC Radio 4) Electric Sky - 'Martha Gellhorn - On The Record' "Martha Gellhorn" by Angie Dorman Category:1908 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Journalists from St. Louis Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:Travel writers Category:Jews from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Suicides Category:Women born in the 1900s he:ויקיציטוט:תבניות דף/אישים