Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes


You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.


Citations

Spoto, Donald. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life. St. Martin's Press, 2000, p. 280.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  • Born: July 28, 1929
  • Died: May 19, 1994
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: First Lady

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. Her popularity as First Lady was due to her devotion to historical preservation of the White House, her fashion sense, and her devotion to her children, which endeared her to the American public. During her lifetime, Jackie was regarded as an international fashion icon. Her ensemble of a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat that she wore in Dallas, Texas, when the president was assassinated on November 22, 1963, has become a symbol of her husband's death.