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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Rose Kennedy

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
ROSE KENNEDY

Oneself Tragedy
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 KENNEDY

Healing Mindset Pain Sanity Science Time Wound
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 KENNEDY

Born Career Greatness Ideal Mom Reward Woman
It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
ROSE KENNEDY

Freedom Money Ourselves
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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Greatness Life Myself Regret Sadness
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Carry Challenge Death Life Live Myself Tragedy
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Feeling Freedom People Sing Storm Sun
I am just an old-fashioned girl.
ROSE KENNEDY

Fashion Instagram Captions Myself Old Woman
I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
ROSE KENNEDY

Excitement Love Marriage Money Myself Time
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Beauty Children Friendship Gift God Inspirational Intelligence Life Myself Philosophy Respect Spirit
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.
ROSE KENNEDY

Book Greatness Mom Myself Reputation
It is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
ROSE KENNEDY

Determination Pain Tears
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
ROSE KENNEDY

Father Greatness Innovation Life Myself
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDY

Break Children Myself Risk Spirit
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
ROSE KENNEDY

Magic Mindset Myself Oneself World
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
ROSE KENNEDY

Business Change Husband Job Myself Simplicity

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