Quote by Martha Gellhorn
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel li

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

Other quotes by Martha Gellhorn

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. – Martha Gellhorn

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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

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It begins and ends with money. Its absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. Its obscene. – Kathleen Turner

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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. – John Henrik Clarke

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My husband gave me a necklace. Its fake. I requested fake. Maybe Im paranoid, but in this day and age, I dont want something around my neck thats worth more than my head. – Rita Rudner

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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewi

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