"I saw myself as a ghastly old woman, not giving a damn, not doing anything which bored me even for a..."

“I saw myself as a ghastly old woman, not giving a damn, not doing anything which bored me even for a second, with a mean tongue and a lot of equally tough old chums, sitting about making derogatory comments on the human condition, with a whiskey bottle at my elbow.”

- Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Diana Cooper in Selected Letters
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