Pearls are always appropriate.

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

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

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?

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

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