There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
ROSE KENNEDYThere can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.
ROSE KENNEDYI don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
ROSE KENNEDYBirds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDYIt 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 KENNEDYThe time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
ROSE KENNEDYMake sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
ROSE KENNEDYMy greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
ROSE KENNEDYI tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
ROSE KENNEDYMy father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
ROSE KENNEDYI know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
ROSE KENNEDYSedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
ROSE KENNEDYIt is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
ROSE KENNEDYIn my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
ROSE KENNEDYAny 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.
ROSE KENNEDYModern 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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