The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy

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

I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Jackie Kennedy

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy

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

I want to live my life, not record it.
Jackie Kennedy

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college… I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy

I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy

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.
Jackie Kennedy

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?
Jackie Kennedy

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Jackie Kennedy

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

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.
Jackie Kennedy

He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights… it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy

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.
Jackie Kennedy

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
Jackie Kennedy

Do you know what I think of history? … For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so… No one’ll ever know everything about Jack. But … history made Jack what he was … this lonely, little sick boy … scarlet fever … this little boy sick so much of the time, reading in bed, reading history … reading the Knights of the Round Table … and he just liked that last song.
Then I thought, for Jack history was full of heroes. And if it made him this way, if it made him see the heroes, maybe other little boys will see. Men are such a combination of good and bad … He was such a simple man. But he was so complex, too. Jack had this hero idea of history, the idealistic view, but then he had that other side, the pragmatic side… his friends were all his old friends; he loved his Irish Mafia.
Jackie Kennedy

I said, “I want to be in there when he dies”… so Burkeley forced his way into the operating room and said, “It’s her prerogative, it’s her prerogative…” and I got in, there were about forty people there. Dr. Perry wanted to get me out. But I said “It’s my husband, his blood, his brains are all over me.”
Jackie Kennedy

I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction.
Jackie Kennedy

The ring was all blood-stained… so I put the ring on Jack’s finger… and then I kissed his hand…
Jackie Kennedy

When they carried Jack in, Hill threw his coat over Jack’s head, and I held his head to throw the coat over it. It wasn’t repulsive to me for one moment — nothing was repulsive to me —
Jackie Kennedy

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.
Jackie Kennedy

They were gunning the motorcycles. There were these little backfires. There was one noise like that. I thought it was a backfire. Then next I saw Connally grabbing his arms and saying “no, no, no, no, no,” with his fist beating. Then Jack turned and I turned. All I remember was a blue-gray building up ahead. Then Jack turned back so neatly, his last expression was so neat… you know that wonderful expression he had when they’d ask him a question about one of the ten million pieces they have in a rocket, just before he’d answer. He looked puzzled, then he slumped forward. He was holding out his hand … I could see a piece of his skull coming off. It was flesh-colored, not white — he was holding out his hand … I can see this perfectly clean piece detaching itself from his head. Then he slumped in my lap, his blood and his brains were in my lap … Then Clint Hill [the Secret Service man], he loved us, he made my life so easy, he was the first man in the car … We all lay down in the car … And I kept saying, Jack, Jack, Jack, and someone was yelling “he’s dead, he’s dead.” All the ride to the hospital I kept bending over him, saying “Jack, Jack, can you hear me, I love you, Jack.”
Jackie Kennedy