Katharine Graham Quotes

100 Katharine Graham Quotes

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I always said attractive surroundings conduce a girl to think.
Katharine Graham

I was thinking all the way around the table what I was going to say, and then he skipped me!
Katharine Graham

Pa started with nothing but a fifty-thousand circulation, a beat-up building, and an Associated Press franchise.
Katharine Graham

[On San Francisco] I loved those months… as I have loved few times in my life.
Katharine Graham

[On the house she brought up her children in] It used to be the neighborhood playground. Baseball reigned in the spring and summer and football took over in the fall.
Katharine Graham

We had four children and we loved them, and we traveled.
Katharine Graham

Whatever strength I had, was enhanced by dealing with Phil’s [her husband’s] illness
Katharine Graham

I didn’t go in intending to take over. I thought I’d just be a family coordinating hand for a while.
Katharine Graham

I believe an individual grows because he acts as an individual… People perform best when they have the freedom to be themselves.
Katharine Graham

When I had to decide something, I asked the advice of everyone I could, often irritating those closest to me, who felt, understandably, that I should trust their judgment.
Katharine Graham



I was paralyzed with fear at first.
Katharine Graham

It was like being the new girl in the school. You’re disorientated. You don’t know what your role is.
Katharine Graham

The first time I ever asked a question at one of our private editorial lunches, I thought I’d die.
Katharine Graham

I literally did not know how to use a secretary, much less how to manage a business.
Katharine Graham

[On the company only having male managers and few women professional] Probably no women within four levels of me.
Katharine Graham

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham

I think it helps to withdraw from the workforce gradually, if you’re lucky enough to be able to do so.
Katharine Graham

I thought I’d be one of those who would die after I retired. But I did it in stages, retire that is.
Katharine Graham

It’s dangerous when you are older to start living in the past. Now that it’s out of my system, I intend to live in the present, looking forward to the future.
Katharine Graham

I’ve been thinking about how to grow old gracefully. I’ve been studying Averell Harriman and Alice Longworth, who’ve done it beautifully, and I think I know the answer… you have to read a lot and not drink.
Katharine Graham



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