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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
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
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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.
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Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
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Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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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.
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It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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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.
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