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

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

Love of books is the best of all.

Even though people may be well known they still 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, death.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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?

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.