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.
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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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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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 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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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.
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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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