I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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.
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 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.
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
I am just an old-fashioned girl.
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.
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.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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.
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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.
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.
