Lillian Hellman

To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group. to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (1952)

List of works

• The Children's Hour (1934)
• These Three (1936)
• Dark Angel (1935)
• Dead End (1937)
• The North Star (1943)
• Little Foxes (1939)
• Watch on the Rhine (1940)
• Toys in the Attic (1959)
• An Unfinished Woman (1969)
• Pentimento (1973)
• Scoundrel Time (1976)