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, but I'm not complaining,..…

- Martha Gellhorn

Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbei…

- Martha Gellhorn

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 mo…

- Martha Gellhorn

perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which wil…

- 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

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

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

- Martha Gellhorn

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

- Martha Gellhorn