Jackie Kennedy

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

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?

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

I am a woman above everything else.

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.