 Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world. |
| I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. |
| 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? |
| I want to live my life, not record it. |
| 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. |
| A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. |
| The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. |
| The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. |
| He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. |
| There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. |
| It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores. |
| 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. |
| I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. |
| An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it. |
| Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. |
