Jacqueline Kennedy Quotes

Jacqueline Kennedy (32)

Birth:	28th July, 1929
Death:	19th May, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, First Lady

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Births

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• 1931 - David Wilkerson
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• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it – but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

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• I am a woman above everything else.

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• If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.

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• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

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• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

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• Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

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• When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we’ve made it.

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• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

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• There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

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• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

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• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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• The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

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• The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.

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• S*x is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

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• One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

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• It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.

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• If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

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• I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

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• I want to live my life, not record it.

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