An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
- Jackie Kennedy Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

I want to live my life, not record it.
- Jackie Kennedy Quote

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
- Jackie Kennedy Quote

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
- Jackie Kennedy Quote

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 Quote

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
- Jackie Kennedy Quote

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

The only routine with me is no routine at all.
- Jackie Kennedy Quote

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

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 Quote

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