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Katharine Graham

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BEN BRADLEE If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
HALLIE EPHRON His main contribution is he touched the lives of so many young men and a few women as a father figur...
CHRIS FERGUSON I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.
CHERYL JAMES All their lives, [Lloyd and Greg] had watched the women in their lives trading and borrowing handbag...
JULIE KOUHIA Grown women are coming out now, ... Real grown women. I'm not even talking about 25, 26. I'm talking...
OMARION Women, like princes, find few real friends
LORD LYTTELTON I think these numbers relate to women having responsibility in their lives, of more women having to ...
JAN SCOTT I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepbur...
MEGYN KELLY Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admir...
FRANCESCA ANNIS It's like Golden Pond. You almost expect Katharine Hepburn to come around the corner at any moment.
SCOTT WITTMAN There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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JASON SCHWARTZMAN 'If The Weather Permits' was closer to my heart because it was a woman closer to my age, wit...
TWINKLE KHANNA A child thinks and acts like a child. But when you are grown, you act and think like an adult. Too m...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We've lost very few lives and very few injuries this year, so this is a very sad event, indeed.
E. LYNN BURKETT I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give...
OSCAR WILDE So I write for women like that, women like me.
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the he...
KATHE KOLLWITZ I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so...
MIRANDA KERR TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
RAM KAPOOR Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
J. SWARTZ Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
WILLIAM STYRON A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they...
JACKSON KATZ Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
ERMA BOMBECK It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more sati...
P.D. JAMES New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.
TOM UDALL 90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives
MARTIN LINDSTROM Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it...
MAGGIE HASSAN 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.
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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 ...
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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 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 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 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...
KATHARINE GRAHAM These programs have grown amazingly in the last few years.
JAY LEBOW I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives...
GILLIAN ANDERSON So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or kno...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.
BROOKE ELLIOTT Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA In the last three months, developmentally and physically, they have grown so much. It's crazy. Aaron...
APRIL SIX Many women find it hard to juggle work and family. Passion Parties helps women have successful caree...
PATRICIA DAVIS Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
DAN LIPINSKI None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.
ANITA BORG Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opre...
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM Come and meet the real super heroes, the men and women who risk their lives for you.
CHARLES BROWDER From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many...
PEACE PILGRIM I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many...
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EDWARD DAHLBERG Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th...
WILL SMITH The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like ...
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LEAH WARD SEARS The research we conducted showed a large demographic of younger women at a critical time in their li...
LAUREN STANICH Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedo...
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KATHARINE HEPBURN Enemies are so stimulating.
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KATHARINE HEPBURN If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get marr...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Try asking for equal pay while wearing a baby-doll frock
KATHARINE VINER . . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
KATHARINE HEPBURN What in the world would we do without our libraries?
KATHARINE HEPBURN Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the gi...
KATHARINE WEBER Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes thing...
KATHARINE ISABELLE Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don'...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about...
KATHARINE HEPBURN To be loved is very demoralizing
KATHARINE HEPBURN Tea at Five
KATHARINE HEPBURN Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask f...
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then som...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical to love, honor, and obey.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to ...
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 I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by wri...
KATHARINE KERR