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
I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Marriage
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Parenting, Parents
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Topics: Sex
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
—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
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
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