Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
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I 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.
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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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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I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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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 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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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 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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Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.
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My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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