"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved." — Rose Kennedy

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.