Katherine Graham > Quotes

“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”
― Katherine Graham

“To love what you do and feel like it matters, how could anything be more fun?”
― Katherine Graham

“To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun.”
― Katherine Graham

“Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.”
― Katherine Graham

“I often observed that at times women were invisible to men, who looked right through you as though you weren't there.”
― Katherine Graham, Personal History: A Memoir

“Unfortunately, this incapacity often produced in women--as it did in me--a diffuse way of talking, an inability to be concise, a tendency to ramble, to start at the end and work backwards, to overexplain, to go on for too long, to apologize.”
― Katherine Graham, Personal History: A Memoir

“The Kennedy men were also unabashed chauvinists, as were the great majority of men at the time, including Phil. They liked other bright men, and they liked girls, but they didn't really know how to relate to middle-aged women, in whom they didn't have a whole lot of interest. This attitude made life difficult for middle-aged wives especially, and induced--or fed--feelings of uncertainty in many of us in those years. Though the men were polite, we somehow knew we had no place in their spectrum. My ever-present terror of being boring often overwhelmed me in social situations with the president and at the White House, particularly whenever I was face to face with the president himself or one of his main advisers, and my fear was a real guarantee of being boring, since it paralyzed and silenced me.”
― Katherine Graham, Personal History: A Memoir