My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
ROSE KENNEDYI’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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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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To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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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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