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To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential. — 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 great experience. — Katharine Graham

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones. — 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

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

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

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house. — Katharine Graham

In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours. — Katharine Graham

The nicest thing you did was to take me seriously when a lot of people wouldn't have, but not too seriously, which was just right. — Katharine Graham

Truth and news are not the same thing. — Katharine Graham

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

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

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press. — Katharine Graham

Whatever power I exert is collegial. — Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. — Katharine Graham

I believe ... that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting. — Katharine Graham

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting. — Katharine Graham

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. — Katharine Graham

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

When Newsweek owner Katharine Graham heard about our lawsuit, she asked, Which side am I supposed to be on? — Lynn Povich

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

So few grown women like their lives. — Katharine Graham

Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life. — Katharine Graham

There is a saying about relationships in Washington: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. — Katharine Graham

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising. — Katharine Graham

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

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. — Katharine Graham

He, who hated to hurt people, had to begin to deal with all the hurt his actions had wrought - for me, for the children, for Robin, for himself. — Katharine Graham

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

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. — Katharine Graham

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