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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
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Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
Katharine Whitehorn
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
Katharine Whitehorn
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Katharine Whitehorn
Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
Katharine Whitehorn
As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.
Katharine Whitehorn
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Katharine Whitehorn
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
Katharine Whitehorn
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
Katharine Whitehorn
The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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 after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).
Katharine Whitehorn
Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.
Katharine Whitehorn
It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
Katharine Whitehorn
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
Katharine Whitehorn
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
Katharine Whitehorn
As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
Katharine Whitehorn
Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
Katharine Whitehorn
