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" 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. "

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" When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity. "

Rose Kennedy

Parenting

Responsibility

Time

" No one will ever feel sorry for me. "

" 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. "

" I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat. "

" I am just an old-fashioned girl. "

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

" I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith. "

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

" 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.' "

" I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved. "

Rose Kennedy

Old

Funny

" 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. "

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

" I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. "

" 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. "

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

" Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. "

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

Rose Kennedy

Unattractive

Candid

" 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. "

" Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? "

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

" Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. "

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

Rose Kennedy

Mind

World

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

" 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. "

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

" What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? "

" Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. "

" 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. "

" Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. "

" 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. "