Selected Letters Quotes by Caroline Moorehead Home My Books Browse ▾Recommendations Choice Awards Genres Giveaways New Releases Lists Explore News & Interviews Genres Art Biography Business Children's Christian Classics Comics Cookbooks Ebooks Fantasy Fiction Graphic Novels Historical Fiction History Horror Memoir Music Mystery Nonfiction Poetry Psychology Romance Science Science Fiction Self Help Sports Thriller Travel Young Adult More Genres Community ▾Groups Quotes Ask the Author Sign In Join Sign up View profile Profile Friends Groups Discussions Comments Reading Challenge Kindle Notes & Highlights Quotes Favorite genres Friends’ recommendations Account settings Help Sign out Home My Books Browse ▾Recommendations Choice Awards Genres Giveaways New Releases Lists Explore News & Interviews Genres Art Biography Business Children's Christian Classics Comics Cookbooks Ebooks Fantasy Fiction Graphic Novels Historical Fiction History Horror Memoir Music Mystery Nonfiction Poetry Psychology Romance Science Science Fiction Self Help Sports Thriller Travel Young Adult More Genres Community ▾Groups Quotes Ask the Author Find & Share Quotes with Friends Join Goodreads Selected Letters Quotes Want to Read saving… Want to Read Currently Reading Read Did Not Finish Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Selected Letters by Caroline Moorehead 145 ratings, 4.22 average rating, 23 reviews Selected Letters Quotes Showing 1-9 of 9 “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women 2363 likes Like “And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters 35 likes Like “Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters tags: citizenship, duty, politics 12 likes Like “It is much harder to be lonely, when you have for a while stopped being lonely. I was used to having only myself, cold and hard as that is; I could live with it. And now I wait, for a voice, a face, a body, that is not going to be here, is not mine, does not in any case wait as I do, nor share this homesickness. […] How to explain that I taught myself to be tough and indifferent, because it mattered too much and learned not even to weep in my mind not to notice.” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters tags: marta-gellhorn 11 likes Like “I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don’t really know what else is worth having.” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters 10 likes Like “People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out.” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters 6 likes Like “I want to read and write and be very quiet.” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters tags: letters, writing 5 likes Like “I am frightened and doubtful, and everyone who touches me must suffer.” Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters tags: doubtful, frightened, suffer 4 likes Like “I am not lonely, living this way, because I have given up expecting that loneliness can be blotted out by anyone else; my loneliness is my own cherished possession and probably my only one.” Caroline Moorehead, Selected Letters 1 likes Like All Quotes Quotes By Caroline Moorehead Company About us Careers Terms Privacy Interest Based Ads Ad Preferences Your Ads Privacy Choices Help Work with us Authors Advertise Authors & ads blog Connect Mobile version © 2026 Goodreads LLC