Katharine Graham Quotes

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• 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

• The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

  Katharine Graham

• 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

• If one is rich and one’s a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

  Katharine Graham

• A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Thing, Simply

• With rare exceptions, I feel strongly that McGovern’s rule is an appropriate one for us all. The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is most debilitating to the person who bears it.

  Katharine Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person

• Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

  Katharine Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn

• 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

  Topics in Knowledge

• No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Avoid

• So few grown women like their lives.

  Katharine Graham

  Tags in Being A Woman

• Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

  Katharine Graham

  Topics in Power

• A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

  Katharine Graham

  Topics in Mistake

• To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?

  Katharine Graham

  Topics in Work

Katharine Graham (14)

Birth:	16th June, 1917
Death:	17th July, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Publisher

About

Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

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