The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts. Katharine Whitehorn More Quotes by Katharine Whitehorn More Quotes From Katharine Whitehorn Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it. Katharine Whitehorn work inspiring inspirational It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys. Katharine Whitehorn girl boys people The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn money inspiring funny The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own. Katharine Whitehorn party purpose children The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind. Katharine Whitehorn intelligence blow wind 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. Katharine Whitehorn iron giving-up men Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? Katharine Whitehorn women memorable time Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? Katharine Whitehorn women clothes taken 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. Katharine Whitehorn want men sex I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does. Katharine Whitehorn husband mother wish There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. Katharine Whitehorn gun humorous funny I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases). Katharine Whitehorn mother men years 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. Katharine Whitehorn smart reading book When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. Katharine Whitehorn management mean book As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives. Katharine Whitehorn diversity justice men Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. Katharine Whitehorn use inspirational people There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get. Katharine Whitehorn gowns awful comfort I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me. Katharine Whitehorn sports boys thinking I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze. Katharine Whitehorn dream hands thinking I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head. Katharine Whitehorn heart love people
