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.
ROSE KENNEDYMy father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
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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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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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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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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 don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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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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What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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