Katharine Whitehorn

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

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

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.