Jackie Kennedy Quotes
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“I've always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person--starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them--and I've always thought that every minute away from them would be hell--so looking at it that way, I guess I'm not in love with you.
[Letter to suitor, R. Beverley Corbin, Jr.
20 January 1947]”
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[Letter to suitor, R. Beverley Corbin, Jr.
20 January 1947]”
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“I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world—most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.”
― Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon
― Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon
“If school days are the happiest of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.”
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“Can you think of anything worse than living in a small town like this [ Farmington, Connecticut] all your life and competing to see which housewife could bake the best cake?
[Letter to R. Beverley Corbin, Jr.
3 October 1946]”
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[Letter to R. Beverley Corbin, Jr.
3 October 1946]”
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“I'm never going to send my children to boarding school. The boys can go to P.S. 148 with gangsters, and then go to Columbia & the girls can go to Hunter College and they'll all be morons but at least they wont have to tear around and get their teeth knocked out playing hockey every day.
[Letter to R. Beverley Corbin, Jr, 3 October 1946]”
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[Letter to R. Beverley Corbin, Jr, 3 October 1946]”
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“I do love you though--and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that.
[Letter to her suitor, R. Beverley Corbin, Jr, 10 October 1946]”
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[Letter to her suitor, R. Beverley Corbin, Jr, 10 October 1946]”
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“As she sadly admitted to Life's Theodore White, "There'll never be another Camelot." And to this day, that statement remains true.”
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