• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

• I want to live my life, not record it.

• An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. (while Editor at Doubleday)

• Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

• When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

• I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

• Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? (1974, in McCall's)

• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

• I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

• The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

• There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed.

• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

• Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.