Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

She first went to Gastonia North Carolina where Martha Gellhorn used her observation and communication skills to report on how the people of that town were affected by the Great Depression. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8 1908 – February 15 1998) was an American novelist travel writer and journalist considered by the London Daily Telegraph among others to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. The pair celebrated Christmas of 1937 together in Barcelona.

At the age of 89 ill and almost completely blind Martha Gellhorn committed suicide. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8 1908 – February 15 1998) was an American novelist travel writer and journalist considered by the London Daily Telegraph among others to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway from 1940 to 1945.