doing what you want with your life (8 November 2016)

Louise Hawson, whatever the question?, Sydney, 2013 - 52 Suburbs Around the World

I regard the getting and keeping (and the upkeeping) of possessions as a waste of life. No one can be wholly free but one can be freer, and the easiest trap to open is the possessions trap.

- Martha Gellhorn

travel is compost for the mind ...

- Martha Gellhorn

Louise Hawson, the street vendor (top) and guard dog, Shanghai, 2015 (below) - 52 Suburbs Around the World

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

- Martha Gellhorn

Louise Hawson, Ginza cats, Tokyo, 2012 -  52 Suburbs Around the World

Louise Hawson, all shapes and sizes, New York, 2012 -  52 Suburbs Around the World

... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

- Martha Gellhorn 

 

 Louise Hawson, ice cream truck time again, 2013 - 52 Suburbs Around the World


I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

- Martha Gellhorn

 

Louise Hawson, Heidi, Coogee Beach - The Art of Aging

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.

- Martha Gellhorn

John Pilger interview, Martha Gellhorn: The Outsiders, 1983