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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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Politician
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Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
Jacqueline Bouvier
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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[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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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Love of books is the best of all.
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The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.
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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 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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You have only one chance to raise your child.
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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
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One should always dress like a marble column.
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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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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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