Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBE (b.1928) is a British journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women. Born in Hendon, she was educated at the private Roedean School in Brighton, Glasgow High School for Girls, and Newnham College, Cambridge.
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The best career advice to give to the young is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Advice
The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
—Katharine Whitehorn
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Smoking
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one’s own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Motivation
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don’t try to predict what.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Weather
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Men
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Housework
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Money
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Children
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Christmas, Holidays
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
—Katharine Whitehorn
Topics: Listening
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