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So few grown women like their lives.
Katharine Graham
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things
Katharine Graham
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News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
Katharine Graham
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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.
Katharine Graham
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To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham
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Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.
Katharine Graham
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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.
Katharine Graham
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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.
Katharine Graham
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No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Katharine Graham
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I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.
Katharine Graham
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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
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Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
Katharine Graham
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To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.
Katharine Graham
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The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.
Katharine Graham
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If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
Katharine Graham
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Truth and news are not the same thing.
Katharine Graham
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Whatever power I exert is collegial.
Katharine Graham
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The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
Katharine Graham
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I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.
Katharine Graham
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The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.
Katharine Graham
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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
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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
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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
