I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I’m proud of that.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Difficulty
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Marriage
I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Politics, Politicians
A newspaper reported that I spent $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.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Politics
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Parents, Parenting
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Sex
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