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If a voice like this cannot be heard on a New York stage, what hope is there for anyone else?


Katharine Viner

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KATHARINE HEPBURN I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...
KATHARINE HEPBURN If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun
KATHARINE HEPBURN Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
KATHARINE HEPBURN There is no evidence of a conspiracy ... the state failed because there is no conspiracy.
KATHARINE LIELL We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - yo...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
KATHARINE HEPBURN 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 I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by wri...
KATHARINE KERR 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 It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. T...
KATHARINE HEPBURN At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a wom...
KATHARINE GRAHAM I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not in...
KATHARINE WHITEHORN Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so sing...
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 No, I'm not a scientologist.
KATHARINE MCPHEE Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've ...
KATHARINE KERR My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities ...
KATHARINE GRAHAM I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that&...
KATHARINE MCPHEE I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.
KATHARINE MCPHEE I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to ...
KATHARINE WHITEHORN