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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.


Katharine Whitehorn

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KATHARINE HEPBURN Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like ce...
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KATHARINE GRAHAM What happened to your lip?" Ravenna said to him. "It looks sore."
Miss Feather's fingers darte...
KATHARINE ASHE I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our abili...
KATHARINE GRAHAM Never complain. Never explain.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
KATHARINE MCPHEE A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless.
KATHARINE ASHE The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons scream...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else....
KATHARINE HEPBURN Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
KATHARINE HEPBURN When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
KATHARINE HEPBURN My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup o...
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 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 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