If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

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.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

So few grown women like their lives.

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

In large families, it seems it is hardest to be either the first or the last child. That was certainly true in ours.

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'

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.

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

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.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

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.

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.

There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.

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.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.