Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 22. Juli 1890 |
Geburtsort | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Todesort | Hyannis_Port,_Massachusetts |
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Beschreibung | Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (22. Juli 1890 - 22. Januar 1995) war eine amerikanische Philanthropin, Gesellschaftsdame und Matriarchin der Familie Kennedy. Sie war tief in der irisch-amerikanischen Gemeinschaft in Boston verwurzelt, die als "Spitzenvorhang" bekannt war. Ihr Vater, John F. Fitzgerald, war Mitglied des Senats des Bundesstaates Massachusetts (1892-1894), Mitglied des US-Repräsentantenhauses (1895-1901, 1919) und Bürgermeister von Boston (1906-1908, 1910-1914). Ihr Ehemann Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. war Vorsitzender der U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-1935) und der U.S. Maritime Commission (1937-1938) und diente als Botschafter der Vereinigten Staaten im Vereinigten Königreich (1938-1940). Zu ihren neun Kindern gehörten US-Präsident John F. Kennedy, US-Senator Robert F. Kennedy aus New York, US-Senator Ted Kennedy aus Massachusetts, Spe |
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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 that I could bring to it.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
