Marie Colvin > Quotes

“It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.”
― Marie Colvin

“My job is to bear witness. I have never been interested in knowing what make of plane had just bombed a village or whether the artillery that fired at it was 120mm or 155mm.”
― Marie Colvin, On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

“It irritated me to think that I would be judged as a woman war correspondent rather than as a writer, taking the same risks and covering the same story as my male colleagues.”
― Marie Colvin

“And when you are huddled in a cold gully under shellfire with 12 men, fear is as great an equaliser as dirt.”
― Marie Colvin, On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

“Craters. Burnt houses. Women weeping for sons and daughters. Suffering. In my profession, there is no chance of unemployment. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity
to believe that someone will care.”
― Marie Colvin, On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin