Katharine Whitehorn

“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."”

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

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

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

“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.”

“There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.”

“The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.”