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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
First Lady
Journalist
Literary Editor
Model
Politician
Socialite
Writer
Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
Jacqueline Bouvier
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis
Jackie O.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Pearls are always appropriate.
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If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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You have only one chance to raise your child.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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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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The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
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Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.
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A newspaper reported I spend $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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I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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