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

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.

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.

Jackie Kennedy

Flies

Summer

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Jackie Kennedy

Men

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?

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

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

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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?

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Jackie Kennedy

Sex

Clothes

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.

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

Jackie Kennedy

Children

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.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

Jackie Kennedy

Men

Wives

The only routine with me is no routine at all.