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. Rose Kennedy More Quotes by Rose Kennedy More Quotes From Rose Kennedy My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative. Rose Kennedy conservative daughter father Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment Rose Kennedy milestone moments Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them Rose Kennedy It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. Rose Kennedy never pain mind time 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. Rose Kennedy gift woman women children 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. Rose Kennedy problems child mother sometimes To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air. Rose Kennedy magic mind father world My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm. Rose Kennedy charm grace beauty father 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. Rose Kennedy you family god son It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please. Rose Kennedy spend free money way My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in. Rose Kennedy never husband business work
