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"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."
"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
"I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way."
"If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight."
"You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat."
"Love of books is the best of all."
"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."
"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."
"In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably."
"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 trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life."
"Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me."
"You have only one chance to raise your child."
"An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor."
"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."
"The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me."
"A newspaper reported I spend $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."
"It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores."
"To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection."
"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?"