Frasi di Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis, detta Jackie, nata Bouvier , è stata una first lady statunitense.

Fu la moglie di John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35º presidente degli Stati Uniti, First lady dal 20 gennaio 1961 al 22 novembre 1963, data dell'assassinio del marito. Vedova, sposò nel 1968 l'armatore greco Aristotele Onassis. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Luglio 1929 – 19. Maggio 1994
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“It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.”

On her romance with John F. Kennedy quoted inThe Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987) by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

“Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love.”

Statement at the funeral of Aristotle Onassis, as quoted in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis : A Life (2000) by Donald Spoto.
Contesto: Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

“I saw myself in the mirror; my whole face spattered with blood and hair… I wiped it off with Kleenex… History! … I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought, why did I wash the blood off? I should have left it there, let them see what they've done…”

A variant reading of White's notes exists: Then later I said to Bobby — what's the line between histrionics and drama. I should have kept the blood on. but in White's own published memoir In Search of History: A Personal Adventure (1978) this is rendered "what's the line between history and drama?"
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)
Contesto: History!... Everybody kept saying to me to put a cold towel around my head and wipe the blood off... later, I saw myself in the mirror; my whole face spattered with blood and hair... I wiped it off with Kleenex... History! … I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought, why did I wash the blood off? I should have left it there, let them see what they've done... If I'd just had the blood and caked hair when they took the picture … Then later I said to Bobby — what's the line between history and drama? I should have kept the blood on.

“I'd get out of bed at night and play it for him, when it was so cold getting out of bed… on a Victrola ten years old — and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record, the last side of Camelot, sad Camelot… "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."…There'll never be another Camelot again…”

The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)
Contesto: But there's this one thing I wanted to say... I'm so ashamed of myself... When Jack quoted something, it was usually classical... no, don't protect me now... I kept saying to Bobby, I've got to talk to somebody, I've got to see somebody, I want to say this one thing, it's been almost an obsession with me, all I keep thinking of is this line from a musical comedy, it's been an obsession with me... At night before we'd go to sleep... we had an old Victrola. Jack liked to play some records. His back hurt, the floor was so cold. I'd get out of bed at night and play it for him, when it was so cold getting out of bed... on a Victrola ten years old — and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record, the last side of Camelot, sad Camelot... "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."... There'll never be another Camelot again...

“We know you understand that 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.”

Press Statement issued the day before her marriage to Aristotle Onassis, NY Times (20 October 1968)
Contesto: We know you understand that 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. We wish our wedding to be a private moment in the little chapel among the cypresses of Skorpios.

“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”

Written on a card for an exhibit which travelled around the US when the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was first opening (1979), quoted in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Suzy Platt

“I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.”

Response to Stephen Spender, on being asked what she considered her proudest accomplishment, as quoted in The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words (2004) by Bill Adler, p. 5, and p. 232

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

Advice to her secretary; quoted inThe Kennedys (1984) by Peter Collier and David Horowitz

“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.”

Welcoming decorator Billy Baldwin to the island of Skorpios; quoted in Ari (1986) by Peter Evans

“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”

Quoted in The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler

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

Inscription for cards at her husband’s funeral (25 November 1963)

“The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me.”

On tabloid stories, as quoted in Newsweek (30 August 1994)

“The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.”

Quoted in The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

Attributed in Wisdom Through the Ages : Book Two (2003) by Helen Granat, p. 118; this actually is cited to Robert Louis Stevenson in The Law of Success (1928) by Napoleon Hill: "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself."
Misattributed

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

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960) https://web.archive.org/web/20140127091759/http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/joint/joint011060_nbctv03.html

“It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.”

On the White House; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights… it had to be some silly little Communist.”

To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester

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