I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYIf 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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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 don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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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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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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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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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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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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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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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.
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Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
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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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It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
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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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