Quotes from Jackie Kennedy

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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

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

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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

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

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

You have only one chance to raise your child.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

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.

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

I want to live my life, not record it.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

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.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

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 am a woman above everything else.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

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.

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

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.