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.

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

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.