Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish-American community in Boston. Her father, John F. Fitzgerald, served in the Massachusetts State Senate (1892–1894), in the U.S. House...
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.
Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.