Quote

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.

Jackie Kennedy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
Thinking
President
Major
People
Care
Serve
Best
Fail
Firsts
Role
First
Husband
Take
Failing
Children
Roles
Lady
Think
Family
Majors

More quotes by Jackie Kennedy

Image
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
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.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
You have only one chance to raise your child.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
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.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
One should always dress like a marble column.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
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?
Jackie Kennedy
Image
[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
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.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
Jackie Kennedy
Image
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?
Jackie Kennedy
Image
History -- its what those bitter old men write.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
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.
Jackie Kennedy
Image
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy