"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?"

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"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."

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"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."

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

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

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