Katharine Weymouth Quotes

My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.

- Katharine Weymouth

Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.

- Katharine Weymouth

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

- Katharine Weymouth

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

- Katharine Weymouth

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.

- Katharine Weymouth

I don't feel like my job is to be beloved.

- Katharine Weymouth

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

- Katharine Weymouth

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

- Katharine Weymouth

Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

- Katharine Weymouth

Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.

- Katharine Weymouth

My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.

- Katharine Weymouth

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

- Katharine Weymouth

We're no longer a newspaper in the morning, we're a 24/7 newspaper organization.

- Katharine Weymouth

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

- Katharine Weymouth