Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

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

“I've had an exciting life; I married for love and got a little money along with it.”

“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 I could bring to it.”