Quotes by Jackie Kennedy

• 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 want to live my life, not record it.
• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
• An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
• 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?
• Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
• I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
• He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
• The only routine with me is no routine at all.
• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
• 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.
• It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
• 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.
• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
• 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?
• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's 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.
• 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?
• 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 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.
• The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.