"A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican."

“If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.”

“I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.”

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

Source : Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

“I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.”

“It’s important to let go, calm down, and get grounded. We need to listen to ourselves. When one becomes aware that our present-moment thoughts are not productive, one should simply let them go. Change a negative thought to a positive one.”

“We carry our childhood with us.”

“I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.”

“A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.”