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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
Katharine Whitehorn
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.
Katharine Whitehorn
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
Katharine Whitehorn
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).
Katharine Whitehorn
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
Katharine Whitehorn
