The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
Katharine WhitehornThere are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katharine WhitehornAn office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).
Katharine WhitehornIn 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.
Katharine Whitehorn