86 Quotes by Katharine Graham

What the president never accepted, or even clearly understood – as most people don’t understand – is the autonomy editors have, and must have, to produce a good newspaper. I used to describe it as liberty, not license.

The editorial – written by a liberated man – suggested legal and social remedies but concluded that “perhaps we can begin with the ultra-radical notion that a woman is a human being.

When you’ve lived alone for a number of years I’m afraid that you begin to realize how hard it would be to accommodate to living with someone else. Adjusting to or even indulging his desires and his life. It was clear to me that I was married to my job. And that I loved it.

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.