Katharine Graham

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city…

— Katharine Graham

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

— Katharine Graham

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her…

— Katharine Graham

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues -…

— Katharine Graham

I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But…

— Katharine Graham

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

— Katharine Graham

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

— Katharine Graham

“I resigned myself quite contentedly to the life of a vegetable. I went to cooking school in the morning, had lunch with…

— Katharine Graham

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In…

— Katharine Graham

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

— Katharine Graham

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

— Katharine Graham

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of…

— Katharine Graham

“I believe...that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.”

— Katharine Graham

There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so…

— Katharine Graham

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

— Katharine Graham

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

— Katharine Graham

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

— Katharine Graham

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning…

— Katharine Graham

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

— Katharine Graham

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have…

— Katharine Graham

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with…

— Katharine Graham

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to…

— Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more…

— Katharine Graham

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we…

— Katharine Graham

Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.

— Katharine Graham