She changed the White House from a plastic to a crystal bowl.
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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.
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We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
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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.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me.
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It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.
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She made a rare and noble contribution to the American spirit. But for us, most of all she was a magnificent wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. She graced our history. And for those of us who knew and loved her, she graced our lives.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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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.
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I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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His head was so beautiful. I tried to hold the top of his head down, maybe I could keep it in... but I knew he was dead.
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I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction.
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I am a woman above everything else.
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I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
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One man can make a difference and every man should try.
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Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?
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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.
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The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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Variant: There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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Let the skeptics snort about Camelot, but there was something during the Kennedy years that was magic. Jackie was more of that than anyone admitted for a long while. She smoothed the rough Kennedy edges. As much as anyone in those heady days, she grasped the epic dimensions of the adventure. No small portion of the glamour of the Kennedy stewardship that lives on today came from her standards of public propriety and majesty.
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To think that I very nearly didn’t go... What if I’d been here—out riding in Virginia or somewhere—Thank God I went with him.
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He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
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It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.
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Everytime we got off the plane that day, three times they gave me the yellow roses of Texas. But in Dallas they gave me red roses. I thought how funny, red roses— so all the seat was full of blood and red roses.
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We know you understand that even though people may be well known they still 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, death. We wish our wedding to be a private moment in the little chapel among the cypresses of Skorpios.
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