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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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
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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.
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Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?
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I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
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Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
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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.’
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The disease is painless; it’s the cure that hurts.
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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
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Why do born-again people so often make you wish they’d never been born the first time?
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