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Jackie Kennedy [1929-1994] American
Rank: 11
First Lady, Book by Mohammed Badrul Alam


Marriage, Best, Money, Sad, Art, Death, Faith, Family, Future, History, Home, Life, Parenting, Politics, Power, Thankful, Time, Women, Work

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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? Best, Home, Marriage, Work
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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.
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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. Art, Money
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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.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. Parenting
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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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. Death, Marriage
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I want to live my life, not record it. Life
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. Marriage, Money, Time
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. Best
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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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. Faith, Family, Future, Thankful
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. Sad
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I am a woman above everything else.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. Power, Women
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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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? History, Sad
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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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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?
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. Politics
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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