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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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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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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 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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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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Filing is concerned with the past anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
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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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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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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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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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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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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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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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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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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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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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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
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
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.
Katharine Whitehorn
