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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
First Lady
Journalist
Literary Editor
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Writer
Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie Onassis
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Love of books is the best of all.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
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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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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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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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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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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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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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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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Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye
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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
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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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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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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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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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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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One should always dress like a marble column.
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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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