Quote #38

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?

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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  2. I want to live my life, not record it.
  3. I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
  4. I'll be a wife and mother first, then first lady.
  5. I am a woman above everything else.
  6. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
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