Katharine Graham Quotes

• News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

  Katharine Graham

  Freedom, News, Want

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• Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

  Katharine Graham

  Democracy, Information, Depends

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• A mistake is simply another way of doing things

  Katharine Graham

  Wisdom, Work, Mistake

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

  Katharine Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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

  Sex, Women, Rise To Power

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth and news are not the same thing.

  Katharine Graham

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, News

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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

  Believe, Dirty, World Government

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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

  Eye, Feet, Ledges

  "Washington Post's Graham Dies", www.wired.com. July 17, 2001.

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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

  Agendas, Matter, Journalism

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• Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

  Katharine Graham

  Learning, Answers, Lessons

  "The Power That Didn't Corrupt" by Jane Howard, Ms. Magazine, October 1974.

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• No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

  Katharine Graham

  Age, Aging, Economy

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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

  Work Out, Enough, Ifs

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• Whatever power I exert is collegial.

  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

  Political, Facts, Surveillance

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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

  Anger, Bears, Persons

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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

  School, Mean, Thinking

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

  Katharine Graham

  Work, Water, Essentials

  Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books

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

  Katharine Graham

  Misunderstood, Wealth, Rich

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So few grown women like their lives.

  Katharine Graham

  Gender, Grown Women

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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

  Rocks, Anxiety, Way

  Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books

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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

  Eight, Cities, People

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.16, Vintage

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

  Katharine Graham

  Method, Trade, Learning By Doing

  Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books

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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

  Cities, Political, Way

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.27, Vintage

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