Katharine Graham
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My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's ... KATHARINE GRAHAM The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Adver... KATHARINE GRAHAM Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m... KATHARINE GRAHAM No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. KATHARINE GRAHAM One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft through... KATHARINE GRAHAM The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered... KATHARINE GRAHAM It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazin... KATHARINE GRAHAM A mistake is simply another way of doing things. KATHARINE GRAHAM To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? KATHARINE GRAHAM There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democrac... KATHARINE GRAHAM I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings m... KATHARINE GRAHAM In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least impo... KATHARINE GRAHAM Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our abili... KATHARINE GRAHAM To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun? KATHARINE GRAHAM If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. KATHARINE GRAHAM [Descendants of these publishers still run their respective papers, and the attitude that they have ... KATHARINE GRAHAM With rare exceptions, I feel strongly that McGovern's rule is an appropriate one for us all. The lon... KATHARINE GRAHAM Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesso... KATHARINE GRAHAM If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowled... KATHARINE GRAHAM So few grown women like their lives KATHARINE GRAHAM Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. KATHARINE GRAHAM No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else KATHARINE GRAHAM These cool or antagonistic relationships are part of life in Washington and are accepted as such, bu... KATHARINE GRAHAM Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dy... KATHARINE GRAHAM Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcati... KATHARINE GRAHAM Personal History ... I loved the first few chapters where she describes America's wealthy politician... KATHARINE GRAHAM [In August 1966 the Post 's owner, Katharine Graham, discussed the war with a writer in line to take... KATHARINE GRAHAM At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a wom... KATHARINE GRAHAM I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosev... KATHARINE GRAHAM I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting count... KATHARINE GRAHAM When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company... KATHARINE GRAHAM The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant wit... KATHARINE GRAHAM My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities ... KATHARINE GRAHAM One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do ... KATHARINE GRAHAM I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that ... KATHARINE GRAHAM The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competitio... KATHARINE GRAHAM To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting. KATHARINE GRAHAM If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. KATHARINE GRAHAM The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies a... KATHARINE GRAHAM I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, th... KATHARINE GRAHAM There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when th... 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The long hours of earning are in... KATHARINE ANTHONY Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. KATHARINE ANTHONY Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ... KATHARINE ANTHONY People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. KATHARINE ANTHONY The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no... 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I've told countl... KATHARINE WEYMOUTH My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn... KATHARINE ISABELLE KATHARINE HEPBURN I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clo... KATHARINE ISABELLE KATHARINE MCPHEE KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE WHITEHORN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE WHITEHORN This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their fri... KATHARINE ARMSTRONG This all happened pretty quickly. [Whittington] did not announce - which would be protocol - 'Hey, i... KATHARINE ARMSTRONG The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem. KATHARINE ARMSTRONG The vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. By God, Harry was in the line of... KATHARINE ARMSTRONG It was not the vice president's fault. KATHARINE ARMSTRONG The cardinal rule is you stay on line. KATHARINE ARMSTRONG We had dinner and went to bed. We were all very worried about Harry. That was the main thing on our ... KATHARINE ARMSTRONG The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert. KATHARINE ARMSTRONG We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship... KATHARINE ARMSTRONG I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he w... KATHARINE ARMSTRONG KATHARINE WHITEHORN KATHARINE HEPBURN I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things... the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of s... KATHARINE WALKER KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE WHITEHORN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE WHITEHORN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE WHITEHORN Boy, were you wrong about that, Sergeant Clemons. KATHARINE LIELL KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE MCPHEE I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei... KATHARINE ISABELLE KATHARINE MCPHEE If you don't flirt, you're probably dead inside. KATHARINE TOWNE KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like ce... KATHARINE ISABELLE What happened to your lip?" Ravenna said to him. "It looks sore." KATHARINE ASHE KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE HEPBURN KATHARINE MCPHEE A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless. 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