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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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It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
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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 would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.
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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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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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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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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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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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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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It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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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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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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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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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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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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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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