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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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“If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do will matter very much.”
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“For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote. But then I realized history made Jack what he was. ... For Jack, history was full of heroes.”
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“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.”
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“[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”
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“The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.”
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“Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.”
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“[Her guidelines for dealing with the press:] ... minimum information given with maximum politeness.”
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“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.”
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“[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.”
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“So many people, you know, hit the White House with their dictaphone running. I never even kept a journal. I thought, 'I want to live my life, not record it.'”
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“I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.”
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“We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.”
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“You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.”
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“[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.”
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“I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.”
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“Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide ...”
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“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
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“A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. first lady, editor
(1929 - 1994)
Full name: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.