Occupation: Publisher Birth: June 16, 1917 Death: July 17, 2001
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it..
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot..
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock..
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential..
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood..
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else..
So few grown women like their lives..
The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade..
Truth and news are not the same thing..
I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong..
In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the p….
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 survei….
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet..
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes….
Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn..
Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society..
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising..
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..
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?.
Whatever power I exert is collegial..