Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
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 WhitehornAs I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
Katharine WhitehornI 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