If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
More Quotes from Katharine Graham:
These cool or antagonistic relationships are part of life in Washington and are accepted as such, but I often think how self-defeating they are and how much better polite professional relationships would serve political figures and journalists in situations like this. I agreed with a charming message I got from George McGovern after he had been defeated for the presidency. He recalled making some bitter remarks about a couple of our columnists at a dinner party but wrote me, 'I have regretted that outburst and I have also established that the maximum time I can carry a grudge is about three months. This note is simply to say that I have now forgotten all campaign grudges. It is just too difficult trying to remember which people I'm supposed to shun.'Katharine Graham
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Katharine Graham
So few grown women like their lives.
Katharine Graham
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.
Katharine Graham
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Katharine Graham
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