Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow?
JACKIE KENNEDYYou have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
More Jackie Kennedy Quotes
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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 John F. Kennedy:] … now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
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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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History — its what those bitter old men write.
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We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
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One of the things I like about publishing is that you don’t promote the editor – you promote the book and the author.
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He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights… it had to be some silly little Communist.
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
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The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
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