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To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
So few grown women like their lives.
Whatever power I exert is collegial.
Truth and news are not the same thing.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.
Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.
To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.
Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.
I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.
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.
One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.
In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.
Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.
What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.
I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington.
Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.
Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.
Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.
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.
I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.
My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.
I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.
I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.
I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.
When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees.
I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
