In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary … - Katharine Whitehorn

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I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life.

Katharine Whitehorn

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.

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[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

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It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

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