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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katherine Whitehorn

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.
Katherine Whitehorn

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
Katherine Whitehorn

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katherine Whitehorn

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

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

No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katherine Whitehorn

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

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


The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
Katherine Whitehorn

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

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

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

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