It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.
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 WhitehornThere'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 WhitehornThings a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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