In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
