Katharine Graham
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.Collection: Agendas
I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.Collection: Work Out
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.Collection: Anger
I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.Collection: School
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.Collection: Work
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.Collection: Eight
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.Collection: Rocks
The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.Collection: Method
In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.Collection: Cities
To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?Collection: Fun