Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Trending quotes (page 3)

“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Quoted in The Last Word (1992) edited by Carolyn Warner

Women , Children , Sadness , Family

“To think that I very nearly didn’t go… What if I’d been here — out riding in Virginia or somewhere — Thank God I went with him.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Quoted in The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler

God , Thinking

“One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Interview with Publishers Weekly (19 April 1993)

Books

“They were gunning the motorcycles. There were these little backfires. There was one noise like that. I thought it was a backfire. Then next I saw Connally grabbing his arms and saying "no, no, no, no, no," with his fist beating. Then Jack turned and I turned. All I remember was a blue-gray building up ahead. Then Jack turned back so neatly, his last expression was so neat… you know that wonderful expression he had when they'd ask him a question about one of the ten million pieces they have in a rocket, just before he'd answer. He looked puzzled, then he slumped forward. He was holding out his hand … I could see a piece of his skull coming off. It was flesh-colored, not white — he was holding out his hand … I can see this perfectly clean piece detaching itself from his head. Then he slumped in my lap, his blood and his brains were in my lap … Then Clint Hill [the Secret Service man], he loved us, he made my life so easy, he was the first man in the car … We all lay down in the car … And I kept saying, Jack, Jack, Jack, and someone was yelling "he's dead, he's dead."”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

All the ride to the hospital I kept bending over him, saying "Jack, Jack, can you hear me, I love you, Jack."
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

Love , Life , Secret , Cars

“I want to be there when he dies.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

When told she couldn't access President Kennedy's hospital room (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester

“We have known so much & shared & lost so much together—Even if it isn’t the way you wish now—I hope that bond of love and pain will never be cut.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

In a letter to David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, as quoted in the article "The One That Got Away: A Trove of Jacqueline Kennedy’s Love Letters Has Been Found" (9 February 2017) http://www.vogue.com/article/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-letters-david-ormbsy-gore

Love , Pain , Hope , Way

“A newspaper reported I spend $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

The New York Times (15 September 1960)

Women , Hate , Clothes

“I do love you though — and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Letter to a boyfriend of 1947, quoted in Jacqueline Kennedy's Old Love Letters Will School You in the Art of Breaking Up" by Laura Beck, in Cosmopolitan (2 September 2015) http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a45821/jacqueline-kennedy-dear-john-letter/

Love , Hope , Understanding , Kiss

“Minimum information given with maximum politeness.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin; sometimes rendered : "I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."

“They’re stealing our sky!”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Writing on New York tower being built. (1987) http://www.levo.com/articles/lifestyle/jackie-kennedy-birthday|