97 Quotes by Jackie Kennedy

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don’t promote the editor – you promote the book and the author.

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.

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

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I’m to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I’d feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

History – its what those bitter old men write.

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’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.