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.

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

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Katharine Graham

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

Katharine Graham

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

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

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

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

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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