Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (2 March 1928 – 8 January 2021) was a British journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter. She was the first woman to have a column in The Observer, which ran from 1963 to 1996 and from 2011 to 2017. She was the first female rector of a university in Scotland. Her books include Cooking in a Bedsitter (1961).
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
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I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
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I wouldn’t say when you’ve seen one Western you’ve seen the lot; but when you’ve seen the lot you get the feeling you’ve seen one.
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it’s no place actually to get any work done.
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The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
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