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.
ROSE KENNEDYNow 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
ROSE KENNEDYIn 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
ROSE KENNEDYMake sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
ROSE KENNEDYI tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYI don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
ROSE KENNEDYAs 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.
ROSE KENNEDYI’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
ROSE KENNEDYMy father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
ROSE KENNEDYI tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYI 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 KENNEDYI know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
ROSE KENNEDYIt is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
ROSE KENNEDYI looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
ROSE KENNEDYBirds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
ROSE KENNEDY