Quotes from Jackie Kennedy

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?

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Love of books is the best of all.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Even though people may be well known they still 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, death.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

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

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?

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

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

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

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?

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.

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

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?

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

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?

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.