Frases de Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn foi uma escritora e jornalista norte-americana, considerada por muitos como uma das maiores correspondentes de guerra do século XX. Ela cobriu praticamente todos os conflitos mundiais que ocorreram durante seus 60 anos de carreira. Gellhorn foi também a terceira esposa do escritor Ernest Hemingway, com quem permaneceu casada de 1940 a 1945. Após uma longa batalha contra um câncer e quase que completamente cega, ela cometeu suicídio aos 89 anos. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Novembro 1908 – 15. Fevereiro 1998
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Martha Gellhorn frases e citações

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Martha Gellhorn: Frases em inglês

“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.
Contexto: 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.

“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.”

Letter as quoted in "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life" (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead.
Contexto: 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.

“Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”

"Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir" (1978) by Martha Gellhorn.
Fonte: Travels With Myself and Another

“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.