Jackie Kennedy
Jackie Kennedy
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassiswas the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFirst Lady
Date of Birth28 July 1929
CountryUnited States of America
tickets world seems
Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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I am a woman above everything else.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.
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The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
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Love of books is the best of all.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.