Katharine Graham Quotes

Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham
American Businesswoman
Born: Jun 16, 1917
Died: Jul 17, 2001
First Me Mother People Women You
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I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people. Katharine Graham
Best Capitalism People Prosperity Care Believe Society Other System Somehow More More People Take Take Care Freedom-Loving Than Any Works Believed Brings
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. Katharine Graham
Women Sex Power Once Considered Must Rise Fact Masculine Redefine Attribute Femininity In Fact Thing
To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun? Katharine Graham
Love You Matters More Could Feel How Anything To Love Fun
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. Katharine Graham
Age Else Something Something Else No-One Productively Avoid Aging
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. Katharine Graham
Sex Power Once Considered Fact Masculine Attribute In Fact
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. Katharine Graham
Knowledge Political Would Unprecedented Sabotage Pursue Scheme Facts Had Failed Denied Led Surveillance Any As Far As Public Far
In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.' Katharine Graham
Post Light First Important Beauty Year Some Horse Drinks Write Important Issues Frequency Revealing How Least Issues Mixed Brains Began Fever Just Being So-Called Titles Themselves
I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience. Katharine Graham
Great Experience People Mistakes Other Everybody Great Experience See Make Makes Truly Them Even Believed Position
A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katharine Graham
Wisdom Mistake Way Simply Another Another Way Doing Things
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. Katharine Graham
Woman Rich Misunderstood Quite
One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house. Katharine Graham
Memories Hungarian Throughout House Principal Hearing Childhood Childhood Memories
Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. Katharine Graham
War Time Happy Marriage First Before Few Thanks Considerably Our Our Lives Those All Our Lives Had Him Mostly Years Up Very Grew Lives Interrupted Phil
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. Katharine Graham
Better Overcome Press Some About Rather Tendencies Had Days Role May Acquired Should Careful
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us. Katharine Graham
Mother Passion Favorite Never She Occupations Climbing Mountain Any Succeeded Us
Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited. Katharine Graham
Me Learning World School First Big Whatever Lesson Adjustment Potomac Along Proved Up Get Helped Growing Growing Up Basic
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. Katharine Graham
Has-Been More Toward Been Than Decades Eight Place Orientation Whole Washington Hometown
I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington. Katharine Graham
Love Home World Thirty Visiting Martha Had Countries Come House Around Always Years Where Loved Washington Vineyard
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better. Katharine Graham
Good Me Better Nation Nothing Good Intentions Bad About Seems Having Magnificent Very Intentions Capital Much
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other. Katharine Graham
Time Mother Met Few Older Other Alice Bit Though Only Outlived Lifelong Sort Were Years Friends Than Decade Dying Roosevelt Wary Each Her
I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex. Katharine Graham
Remember Everyone Complex Small Simpler Small Town True Feel Town Genuine Were Up Times Maybe Grew Which Less Washington
When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did. Katharine Graham
Myself Business Post Job Rare Sense President Others Presidents Rare Occasions Some More Except Had Taken Most Well Partly Occasions Became Still Than Did Hold Acquired Worked Fuller Company Plate Washington Washington Post Ever Publisher
Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so singular and surprising in those days that I necessarily stood out. In 1963, and for the first several years of my working life, my situation was certainly unique. Katharine Graham
Life Woman First Control Situation Several Those Ours Out Small Days Private Singular Surprising Years Stood Being Then Working Working Life Certainly Unique Company Even Necessarily
My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones. Katharine Graham
Light Mother Important Seemed More Undermine Greater Did Subtly Much Choices Activities Her

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