Katharine Whitehorn

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

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.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.