Jacqueline Kennedy Quotes

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

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• 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?

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• 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.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college… I did other things.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• 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.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• 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?

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

  Jacqueline Kennedy

• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane

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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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