"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?"
-Jackie Kennedy
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"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?“
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"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?"
-Jackie Kennedy
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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 going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
-Jackie Kennedy
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"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
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"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."
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"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."
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