Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Quotes

“Jackie’s work during this period on behalf of the landmarks preservation movement. At various times, she spoke with poignance of Manhattan monuments disappearing, of patches of sky being snatched away, of a cityscape that was dying “by degrees.” Pressed to explain why she had become involved in the fight to save the ornate Beaux Arts–style Grand Central Station, whose bankrupt owners hoped to raise money by allowing a fifty-five-story commercial tower to be built above it, Jackie said: “It’s a beautiful building that I’m used to seeing.”
― Barbara Leaming, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

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― Barbara Leaming, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

“Notably, it was not her fabled tenure as first lady, not the conquest of Paris or the myriad other triumphs of the White House years, not her demeanor at President Kennedy’s funeral and what it had meant to so many Americans, that Jackie spoke of when she replied without hesitation: “I think it is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I am proud of that.”
― Barbara Leaming, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

“Don’t send me anything! You just come over and put your arm around me. That’s all you do. When you haven’t got anythin’ else to do, let’s take a walk. Let’s walk around the backyard. And let me tell you how much you mean to all of us and how we can carry on if you give us a little strength.”
― Barbara Leaming, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story