Katharine Graham Quotes

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To love what you do and feel that it matters — how could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown.... It is a city that offers me more people — more different kinds of people — than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

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

Katharine Graham
In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

Katharine Graham
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

Katharine Graham
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

Katharine Graham
The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade...

Katharine Graham
Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Katharine Graham
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Katharine Graham
What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Katharine Graham