Jacqueline Kennedy Quotes

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

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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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• 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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• 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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Jacqueline Kennedy (33)

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

About

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was born in Southampton, New York, USA. She was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. In 1951, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature from George Washington University and went on to work for the Washington Times-Herald as an inquiring photographer.  In 1968, she married Aristotle Onassis. Following her second husband's death in 1975, she had a career as a book editor for the final two decades of her life.

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