To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

- Katharine Anthony

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

- Katharine Anthony

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

- Katharine Anthony

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

- Katharine Anthony

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

- Katharine Anthony

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

- Katharine Anthony

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

- Katharine Anthony

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no …

- Katharine Anthony