Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBEis a British journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
children party purpose
The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
home men order
And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?
dream thinking hands
I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.
spring spring-break looks
Spring makes everything look filthy.
children hate food
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
sex men want
Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.
christmas views would-be
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
weed next come-up
Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
marriage interesting drs
A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.
want beats women-want
It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.
sore-throat good-listener talkers
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
sports boys thinking
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
smart book reading
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.
giving-up men iron
It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.