I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
ROSE KENNEDYThere can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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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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It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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I 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.
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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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