Jackie Kennedy Quotes

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Jackie Kennedy

Profession : First Lady

Birth : July 28, 1929

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

Jackie Kennedy

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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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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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

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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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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?

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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.

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I want to live my life, not record it.

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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

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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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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

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

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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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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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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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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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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

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