Top 30 Tina Brown Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.”

— Tina Brown

2. “Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.”

— Tina Brown

3. “Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don’t know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that’s by far the best way to break in.”

— Tina Brown

4. “Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.”

— Tina Brown

5. “Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.”

— Tina Brown

6. “I think for a young journalist, it’s better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.”

— Tina Brown

7. “I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn’t replace the other kind of reporting.”

— Tina Brown

8. “The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?”

— Tina Brown

9. “Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity.”

— Tina Brown

10. “A magazine – a relevant one – should be a sound, not an echo.”

— Tina Brown

11. “I just wanted to have fun for myself – I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.”

— Tina Brown

12. “What’s interesting about the Taliban, is they’re more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.”

— Tina Brown

13. “Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it’s safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.”

— Tina Brown

14. “TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.”

— Tina Brown

15. “Embarrassment is a choice that an individual makes.”

— Tina Brown

16. “Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have ‘the responsibility gene.’ No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.”

— Tina Brown

17. “In the end, Dan Rather’s legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.”

— Tina Brown

18. “I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.”

— Tina Brown

19. “In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.”

— Tina Brown

20. “You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back or you can open your eyes and see all she’s left.”

— Tina Brown

21. “Hide from change and it will hide from you.”

— Tina Brown

22. “I’m trying to be entertaining without being mean.”

— Tina Brown

23. “I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I’ve been or something I’ve done. Or politics. It’s going to what’s on my mind at the moment.”

— Tina Brown

24. “Writing doesn’t improve by not doing it.”

— Tina Brown

25. “A reporter asked me which famous woman was my role model, a question that always leaves me stumped. I know it’s the wrong feminist answer, but most of my role models have been men. They always had the lives I wanted.”

— Tina Brown

26. “I sometimes feel there’s a bravery, even nobility, to people who leave their own country for some other dream. It makes you so vulnerable. There is a bit of my own expatriate heart that’s frozen, not here, not there, a lonely thing.”

— Tina Brown

27. “To maintain momentum, you must rejoice in risk.”

— Tina Brown

28. “Diana was better qualified than anyone to know that you don’t just marry a man, you marry his family.”

— Tina Brown

29. “In America, success in one field seems to make people think you can do anything. Maybe I will be offered a job as a brain surgeon next.”

— Tina Brown

30. “I went for a drink at the Algonquin with Wallace Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker’s son, who I have been told wants to write. I loved his creaky voice and twinkly, creased-up eyes. He’s like a small, anxious hippo, so full of quotable insights. “America has no memory,” he explained. “Nothing LEADS to anything in New York.”

— Tina Brown

31. “As the Queen’s grandmother Queen Mary once said to a relative, “You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired and we all love hospitals.”

— Tina Brown

32. “She’s a woman who leaves a glow behind her when she works a room.”

— Tina Brown

33. “Diana was always more beautiful in person than in photographs.”

— Tina Brown

34. “Meghan did not – or could not – perceive the difference between the Queen’s personal aide and a contract stylist at NBC Universal.”

— Tina Brown