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Katherine Whitehorn
Journalist
About the author
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Disease
#Cure
Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Clothes
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Talk
#People
#Money
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Men
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Children
#Money
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#America
Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Man
#Woman
#Trying
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Time
#People
#First
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Fool
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Children
#Americans
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Nothing
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Food
The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Advice
#Careers
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katherine Whitehorn,
Journalist
#Christmas