I truly believed that other people in my position didn’t make mistakes; I couldn’t see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience. Katharine Graham Read Quote
It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize – slow as I may have been – that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly. Katharine Graham Read Quote
I believed – and believe – that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people. Katharine Graham Read Quote
Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves. Katharine Graham Read Quote
There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years. Katharine Graham Read Quote
In my first year or so at the ‘Post,’ I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues – so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: ‘On Being a Horse,’ ‘Brains and Beauty,’ ‘Mixed Drinks,’ ‘Lou Gehrig,’ and ‘Spotted Fever.’ Katharine Graham Read Quote
Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. Katharine Graham Read Quote
I didn’t really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy – ha, ha – on the complaint desk at the circulation department. Katharine Graham Read Quote
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation’s capital having good intentions – and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better. Katharine Graham Read Quote
When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees. Katharine Graham Read Quote
