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.

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

It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.

Katharine Graham

The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.

Katharine Graham

So few grown women like their lives.

So few grown women like their lives.

Katharine Graham

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

Katharine Graham

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

Katharine Graham

Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.

Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Katharine Graham

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.

Katharine Graham

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