Jackie Kennedy Quotes

"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."

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

"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?"

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

"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."

"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?"

"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?"

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

"A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear."