"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
“Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have
answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.”
"If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood."
"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."
"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something
else."
"The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine
their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In
fact power has no sex."
"So few grown women like their lives."
"Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly
difficult lesson to learn."
“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around
anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
"To love what you do and feel that it matters how could
anything be more fun?"
"We live in a dirty and dangerous world ... There are
some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe
democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep
its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
“With rare exceptions, I feel strongly that McGovern's rule is an appropriate one for us all. The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
Written by Katharine Graham
