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Jackie Kennedy

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?

Jackie Kennedy

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Jackie Kennedy is pointing out that women of her time were expected to stop working once they had children, leaving them without a clear purpose later in life. She suggests that after their kids grew up, these women faced a lonely and unfulfilling existence with little to occupy their time.

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