Quotes from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

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

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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.

I am a woman above everything else.

I want to live my life, not record it.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it.

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

On a potential husband, "All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.

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.

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

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

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

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

once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it... all the changes, good or evil, were first brought about by words.

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

There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.

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