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 is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.