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quotefeeling · 3 days

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She is something so rare that there’s no name for it, an absolutely unfrightened woman whose heart never went wrong. And her hunger to give love, her intensity and inner magnetism – it’s all there. And she cannot help any of it.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

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perfectfeelings · 9 hours

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I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King

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asoftepiloguemylove · 9 months

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on childhood and growing up

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coochiequeens · 11 months

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"She lied to a military police officer down by a hospital ship, said she was going to interview nurses about the 'woman’s angle,' and they let her on, because, as she said, no one gave a hoot about the woman’s angle. It served as the perfect forged passport for her," said Somerville. She resorted to those measures because her husband, Ernest Hemingway, tried to take over her journalist career.

This Saturday, June 6, will be the 76th anniversary of D-Day, the battle that would come to represent the beginning of the end of World War II.

There was just one woman, a war correspondent, on the beaches at Normandy that day the allied forces liberated Western Europe from Nazi Germany: the singular Martha Gellhorn. Author Janet Somerville traces Gellhorn’s extraordinary life in her book Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War.

"Since 1937, Martha had been a war correspondent for Collier’s magazine. She knew about the Allied invasion, that there was a plan to cover the Allied invasion of Normandy, and she was determined to cover that," Somerville said.

The problem was, her very famous husband at the time, Ernest Hemingway, pulled the rug out from under her professionally.

"Hemingway had gone to New York, introduced himself to her editor at Collier’s and said ‘I’ll be your war correspondent.’ And he took her accreditation papers. Which was a bit of a problem," said Somerville.

Each publication could send just one correspondent. But Gellhorn was resourceful and clever. She found herself passage on a munitions ship from New York that would get her to Europe. She was the only woman and the only civilian aboard that ship, which landed in Liverpool. Then, she just needed to get to Normandy.

"She lied to a military police officer down by a hospital ship, said she was going to interview nurses about the 'woman’s angle,' and they let her on, because, as she said, no one gave a hoot about the woman’s angle. It served as the perfect forged passport for her," said Somerville.

Once on board the hospital ship, Gellhorn locked herself into a bathroom until they sailed. When the ship docked in Normandy, she waded ashore through waist-deep water with some of the medical officers.

"She became the only woman and the only war correspondent to be actually on the beaches at Normandy, evacuating the wounded."

Though she was there as a journalist to write about the event, she couldn’t help but tend to the wounded soldiers. She had an uncanny ability, Somerville says, to focus on what needed to be done. So when she saw that the wounded were hungry and thirsty, she set to work.

"She just took it in her stride and found somebody who could bring teapots to tip into their mouths,if they couldn't hold a glass. She just took charge and made sure that they got something," Somerville said.

She also managed to be one of many correspondents who wrote about D Day.

"The incredible thing about D-Day is that accredited correspondents produced 700,000 words of text, just about D-Day," Somerville said. "Martha was one of them. She had a piece called 'Over and Back' that Collier’s published."

Gellhorn went on to report into her old age, from all corners of the globe. She filed her last piece, about the murdered street children of Salvador, Brazil, more than 50 years after D-Day, when she was 87 years old.

Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War, 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville is available at the link above, or wherever you buy your books.

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn; in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King

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bnmxfld · 2 years

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And take care of yourself, and be happy, but don’t forget how big the world is.

Martha Gellhorn

#martha gellhorn #text #quote #quotes

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quotemadness · 1 year

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She is something so rare that there’s no name for it, an absolutely unfrightened woman whose heart never went wrong. And her hunger to give love, her intensity and inner magnetism – it’s all there. And she cannot help any of it.

Martha Gellhorn

#Martha Gellhorn #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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oldwinesoul · 5 months

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

// Martha Gellhorn, a letter to Stanley Pennell

#martha gellhorn #spilled poetry #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #19th century #spilled thoughts

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surqrised · 7 months

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She is something so rare that there’s no name for it, an absolutely unfrightened woman whose heart never went wrong. And her hunger to give love, her intensity and inner magnetism – it’s all there. And she cannot help any of it.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

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lillyli-74 · 11 months

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I am frightened and doubtful, and everyone who touches me must suffer.

~Martha Gellhorn

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theglasschild · 4 months

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“I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don’t really know what else is worth having.” ― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

#Martha Gellhorn #quotes #quote

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asoftepiloguemylove · 10 months

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Hi, can you do a web weave on the loss of a lover who you grieve for everyday for your life and wishes to seek their love everyday?

Thank you so much and I love you blog!!

i hope you're doing okay <33

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stay-close · 8 months

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She is something so rare that there’s no name for it, an absolutely unfrightened woman whose heart never went wrong. And her hunger to give love, her intensity and inner magnetism – it’s all there. And she cannot help any of it.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

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thoughtkick · 10 months

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She is something so rare that there’s no name for it, an absolutely unfrightened woman whose heart never went wrong. And her hunger to give love, her intensity and inner magnetism – it’s all there. And she cannot help any of it.

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

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vulnerableagendaofdeath · 11 months

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

— Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Stanley Pennell

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mayclair · 2 years

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#stranger things #max mayfield #web weaving #parallels #clementine von radics #taylor swift #miriam adeney #phoebe bridgers #leigh bardugo #maggie stiefvater #evan knoll #martha gellhorn #meditations in an emergency #kate bush #harry styles #crime and punishment #fyodor dostoevsky #*#st4 #god this has been in my brain for SO LONG. ever since vol1 dropped i think #anyway s4 max is such an interesting character bc she has So Many Layers to her #her battle against grief and her belief that she’s a burden to everyone she loves making her push them away when all they want to do is hel #her bc they know she can’t get through this alone but while she misses them and wants them back she is so confused bc no one has ever loved #her the way the party loves her and it’s scary and forgein to her. she has to decide if it’s something she wants or not and so far she’s #leaning towards the forming and learnign to open up to her friends slowly but she’s doing it and they’ve finally gotten a glimpse into what #she’s going through and it’s good!!!!!!!! ut’s so fucking good #BUT opening ip is not the only thing she has to do she also has to confront her feelings head on about her past her present her future and #accept that b!lly’s dead and gone snd buried and there was nothing she could do even if she thinks she could. anyway i’m reaching the tag #limit so i’m gonna stop and just say that i’m so happy with what they’ve done with her arc this season lol<3 okay bye #mine: web weaving

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