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It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
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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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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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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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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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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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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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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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As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.
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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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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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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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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).
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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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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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