I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYI don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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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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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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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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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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