Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

- Katharine Whitehorn

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on…

- Katharine Whitehorn

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

- Katharine Whitehorn

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they ha…

- Katharine Whitehorn

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitut…

- Katharine Whitehorn

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

- Katharine Whitehorn

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking…

- Katharine Whitehorn

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

- Katharine Whitehorn

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the …

- Katharine Whitehorn