Quotes from Katharine Weymouth

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

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.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.