Top 42 Quotes by Katharine Graham

About Katharine Graham

These are some quotes by American author Katharine Graham Businesswoman, who lived between June 16, 1917 and July 17, 2001.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

Katharine Graham

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katharine Graham

I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington.

I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington.

Katharine Graham

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

Katharine Graham

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

Katharine Graham

In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.

In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.

Katharine Graham

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

Katharine Graham

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katharine Graham

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.

Katharine Graham

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.

Katharine Graham

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