"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."

"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."

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

"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?"

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I want to live my life, not record it."

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

"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald 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?"

"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'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."

"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."

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

"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."

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

"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?"

"The only routine with me is no routine at all."

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

"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."