Jackie Kennedy
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.Collection: Power
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.Collection: Parenting
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.Collection: Time
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?Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Art
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.Collection: Experience
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?Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Thankful
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?Collection: History
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.Collection: Politics
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.Collection: Sad
I want to live my life, not record it.Collection: Life
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.Collection: Best
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.Collection: Men
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
I am a woman above everything else.
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
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.
I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.Collection: Joy
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.Collection: Complaining
Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.Collection: Life Changing
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!Collection: Definitions
If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourselfCollection: Want
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.Collection: Motivational
Pearls are always appropriate.Collection: Fashion
I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.Collection: Thinking
One should always dress like a marble column.Collection: Fashion
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.Collection: Men
Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.Collection: People
If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.Collection: Cutting
I am happiest when I am alone.Collection: Solitude
Love of books is the best of all.Collection: Reading
The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.Collection: Children
You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.Collection: World
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?Collection: Husband
[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.Collection: America
You have only one chance to raise your child.Collection: Children