Jackie Kennedy Quotes

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy

Children, Else, Whatever

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.
Jackie Kennedy

Family, Faith, Future

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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy

Sad, Sadness, Oneself

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

Good, Republican, Democrat

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

Children, Nothing, Else

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

Marriage, Death, Simple

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

Marriage, Love, Time

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

Work, Best, Home

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

Women, Power, Two

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy

Love, Best, Child

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

Children, Together, Old

I am a woman above everything else.
Jackie Kennedy

Woman, Everything, Else

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

Money, Beautiful, Understand

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

History, Work, Women

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy

Politeness, Maximum, Minimum

I want to live my life, not record it.
Jackie Kennedy

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy

Men, Faithful, Wives

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

Love, Mother, Expect

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
Jackie Kennedy

Makes, Elephant, Jet

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

After, Wanted, College

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
Jackie Kennedy

Men, Made, Harvard

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

God, Care, Please

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

Alone, Understand, Living

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

Rights, Silly, Communist

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: First Lady

Born: July 28, 1929

Died: May 19, 1994

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