Rose Kennedy

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.

I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.

In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.'

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.