Jackie Kennedy

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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?”

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”

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

“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.”

“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?”

“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.”

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

“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”

“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.”