85 Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn

Spring makes everything look filthy.

Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.

Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.

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

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.