Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Anne O'Hare McCormick

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Last updated on November 6, 2024.

Anne O'Hare McCormick was an English-American journalist who worked as a foreign news correspondent for The New York Times. In an era where the field was almost exclusively "a man's world", she became the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in a major journalism category, winning in 1937 for correspondence. Her husband's job led to frequent travels abroad, and her career as a journalist became more specialized.

American - Journalist | 1880 - May 29, 1954

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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Anne O'Hare McCormick

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