There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.
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
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
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. - Katharine Whitehorn
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
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
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…
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 am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
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
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 …
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind. - Katharine Whitehorn
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.
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
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…
American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitut… - Katharine Whitehorn
American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitut…
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
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on…
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