We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

I am a woman above everything else.

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

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.