Jackie Kennedy Quotes: 10 Sayings From The Former First Lady
Friday marks the 88th birthday of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the first lady from 1961 to 1963 when John F. Kennedy was president. Jacqueline was known for her cosmopolitan lifestyle and her fashion sense.
Jacqueline was born as Jacqueline Lee Bouvier on July 28, 1929, in Southampton to a wealthy family. Her father was a stockbroker and her mother was an equestrienne of Irish Catholic heritage, reports said.
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Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy descend the stairs from Air Force One after arriving at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, in this handout image taken on November 22, 1963. Photo: Reuters/Cecil Stoughton/The White House/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
She was a bright student in school. After graduating from college in 1951, she started her first job at Washington Times-Herald newspaper. Her work there included interviewing and photographing people of Washington and then putting their responses and pictures together for her column.
Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy (C), first lady Jacqueline Kennedy (R) and Texas Governor John Connally (L) and his wife are pictured riding in the presidential motorcade moments before Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, in this handout image taken on November 22, 1963. Photo: Reuters/Victor Hugo King/Library of Congress/Handout
After moving into the White House, Jacqueline transformed the décor of the building. Hugh Sidey, a White House correspondent at that time, said: "She really was the one who made over the White House into a living stage — not a museum — but a stage where American history and art were displayed." Sidey said the former first lady told him that she wanted to restore the historic building to its original glory, New York Times reported.
After John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Jacqueline married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968. The marriage lasted till 1975. To celebrate the birth anniversary of the famous lady, here are 10 of her inspiring quotes collected from Brianyquotes and Goodreads.
“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?”
“Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought by words.”
“If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.”
“Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.”
“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
“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.”
“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.”
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8. “A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”
9. “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?”
10. “One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”
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