Katharine Graham famous quotes

03-24-2025

A mistake is simply another way of doing things
-- Katharine Graham

#Mistake #Saving #Way
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
-- Katharine Graham

#Age #Aging #Economy
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
-- Katharine Graham

#Motivational #Fun #Matter
Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
-- Katharine Graham

#Learning #Answers #Lessons
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.
-- Katharine Graham

#Sex #Facts #Attributes
Truth and news are not the same thing.
-- Katharine Graham

#Liberty #News
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 when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
-- Katharine Graham

#Believe #Dirty #Government
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
-- Katharine Graham

#Anger #Bears #Persons
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.
-- Katharine Graham

#Rocks #Anxiety #Way
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.
-- Katharine Graham

#Eight #Cities #People
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.
-- Katharine Graham

#Work #Water #Essentials
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.
-- Katharine Graham

#Agendas #Matter #Journalism
I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.
-- Katharine Graham

#Work Out #Enough
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 political are most closely linked.
-- Katharine Graham

#Cities #Political #Way
The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade...
-- Katharine Graham

#Method #Trade
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 surveillance and sabotage.
-- Katharine Graham

#Political #Facts #Surveillance
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
-- Katharine Graham

#Misunderstood #Wealth #Rich
I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.
-- Katharine Graham

#Mean #School #Thinking
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.
-- Katharine Graham

#Eye #Feet #Ledges
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. -Vincent Van Gogh A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
-- Katharine Graham

#Nature #Stars #Mistake
So few grown women like their lives.
-- Katharine Graham

#Gender #Grown Women
Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.
-- Katharine Graham

#Democracy #Information
Whatever power I exert is collegial.
-- Katharine Graham
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
-- Katharine Graham

#Freedom #News #Want

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