"Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn" Order of the British Empire/CBE is a British journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women.

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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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Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

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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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

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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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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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Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

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The best career advice given to the young is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

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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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No nice men are good at getting taxis.

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I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

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A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

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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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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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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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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

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