Are you in the mood for some gutsy quotes? Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998) was best known as an American war correspondent, though she was a prolific writer of fiction and memoir as well. She was the third wife of iconic American author Ernest Hemingway.

Gellhorn is ranked among the top war journalists of the twentieth century — and didn’t wish to be merely remembered as one of the four wives of “Papa” Hemingway. Famously, she lamented, “Why should I be a footnote to somebody else’s life?”

Indeed, she was enormously accomplished in her own right, having covered nearly every global conflict spanning the twentieth century. Read More→