Jackie Kennedy

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

“Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.”

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

“You have only one chance to raise your child.”

“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.”

“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?”

“The only routine with me is no routine at all.”

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

“I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.”

“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?”

“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.”

“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”

“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.”

“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.”

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