Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
ROSE KENNEDYIt is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
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I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
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I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it’s a tremendous responsibility.
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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
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Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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