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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
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[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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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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There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
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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 only routine with me is no routine at all.
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History -- its what those bitter old men write.
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Love of books is the best of all.
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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 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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If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?
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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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If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.
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I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.
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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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