Quotes by Katharine Graham

About Katharine Graham:

Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
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No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Katharine Graham

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

Katharine Graham

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Katharine Graham

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Katharine Graham

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

Katharine Graham

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katharine Graham

So few grown women like their lives.

Katharine Graham

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Katharine Graham

Author Bio

  • NameKatharine Graham
  • DescriptionAmerican publisher
  • AliasesKatharine Meyer Graham
  • BornJune 16, 1917
  • DiedJuly 17, 2001
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Publisher; Author
  • AwardsElijah Parish Lovejoy Award; Pulitzer Prize For Biography Or Autobiography; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Medal; National Women's Hall Of Fame