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 KENNEDYIt’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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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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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.
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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.
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If 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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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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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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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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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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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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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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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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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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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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In 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.
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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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.
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