What was striking about that period was her...

“What was striking about that period was her complete absence of self-pity. I never heard Marie [Colvin] complain about the hardships she endured or the effects of witnessing so much pain. When she was suffering from PTSD, she used to be let out of the clinic and would come round to dinner with her friend Jane Wellesley. My teenage daughters were open-mouthed at the sight of this astonishing woman with an eye patch, listening to her describe what she had done in the previous 20 years. The point, she emphasized with a tipsy flourish of cigarette and wine glass, was that women could do anything they chose. She had no children of her own, but she was wonderful at talking to kids because she treated them as equals.”

Vanity Fair, “Remembering War Correspondent Marie Colvin: 1957-2012”