Jackie Kennedy Quotes


"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Being, World)

"I want to live my life, not record it."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Life, Want)

"A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane."
- Jackie Kennedy
"An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Love, Mother, Encouragement)

"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Information, Politeness, Want)

"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
(Related: Living, President)

"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: God, Care)

"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Mother, Wife, First, Lady)

"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Being, Civil rights, Satisfaction, Silly)

"The only routine with me is no routine at all."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Routine)

"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Men, Wives)

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Death, Marriage, People, Emotions, May, Moments)

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Children)

"It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores."
- Jackie Kennedy
"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."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Children, Magic, Man, Now, Old)

"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Sex, Clothes)

"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Home, Work, HusbDay, Man, Poor, Relax)

"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: First, Lady, Want)

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Love, Books, World)

"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Power, Women, Bed, Want, World)

"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
(Related: Women, Work, Children)

"When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Men)

"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."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Flies, Summer)

"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."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Money, Painting, Will)

"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."
- Jackie Kennedy
(Related: Time, Love, Money, Companionship, First)