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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.

Rose Kennedy

I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
ROSE KENNEDY

Myself People World
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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Father Greatness Innovation Life Myself
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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Marriage Thinking Understand Woman
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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Born Career Greatness Ideal Mom Reward Woman
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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Business Care Lost
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
ROSE KENNEDY

Feeling Myself Oneself
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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Deep Oppression
There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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Argument Myself View
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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Business Change Husband Job Myself Simplicity
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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Break Children Myself Risk Spirit
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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Challenge Children Greatness Hope Mom
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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Joy Life Myself Philosophy Priviledge
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Forgiveness Himself Myself
In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
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Destiny Happiness Life Myself Reading Rule
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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Greatness Life Myself Regret Sadness

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