Jackie Kennedy

Jackie Kennedy

22 quotes

Biography

Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States.

"I want to live my life, not record it."

Jackie Kennedy

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

Jackie Kennedy

"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."

Jackie Kennedy

"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?"

Jackie Kennedy

"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?"

Jackie Kennedy

"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."

Jackie Kennedy

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

Jackie Kennedy

"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?"

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?"

Jackie Kennedy

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

Jackie Kennedy

"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."

Jackie Kennedy

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

Jackie Kennedy

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

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?"

Jackie Kennedy

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

Jackie Kennedy

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

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?"

Jackie Kennedy

"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?"

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?"

Jackie Kennedy

"You have only one chance to raise your child."

Jackie Kennedy

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

Jackie Kennedy

"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."

Jackie Kennedy