Hemingway and Gellhorn

by Jerome Tuccille

Leave people alone and they will find a way to make things better on their own, he believed.

“I didn’t sign on to be a footnote in someone else’s life,” she said later.

What you can’t stand, they can’t stand. What’s hell for you has to be hell for them. How do you know what they feel about their lives? If it was as bad as you think, they’d kill themselves instead of having more kids and setting off firecrackers.”