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Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
About the author
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Writer
#College
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#World
#Being
I want to live my life, not record it.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Want
#Life
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Love
#Mother
#Encouragement
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Want
#Information
#Politeness
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#President
#Living
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#God
#Care
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Wife
#First
#Mother
#Lady
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Being
#Satisfaction
#Silly
#Civil rights
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Routine
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Men
#Wives
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#People
#Death
#May
#Emotions
#Marriage
#Moments
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Children
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
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.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Now
#Children
#Man
#Old
#Magic
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Clothes
#Sex
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Work
#Home
#Man
#Poor
#Relax
#HusbDay
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Want
#First
#Lady
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Love
#World
#Books
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Want
#World
#Power
#Women
#Bed
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?
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Work
#Children
#Women
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Men
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.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Summer
#Flies
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Will
#Money
#Painting
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy,
First Lady
#Time
#Love
#First
#Money
#Companionship