Quotes from Jackie Kennedy


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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?


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


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


The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.


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


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


Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald 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?


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


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?


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


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.


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


Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.


I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.


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


A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.


One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.


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


Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.