“I know Lee Radziwill was just a Princess by courtesy title only but it’s still so crazy to me that we had a pair of sisters who were First Lady of the United States and a Princess.” - Submitted by Anonymous
"We spoke of books. She knew books as intimately as one hopes to know people, lovers, our parents. When she spoke of characters or words or sentences, it felt as if she were stringing pearls on beautiful ropes, and then she would present you with something lovely. And then walk away. She was always sweet and supportive, and she always knew when to arrive and when to leave."
-Tennessee Williams on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, photographed here in 1978.
We spoke of books. She knew books as intimately as one hopes to know people, lovers, our parents. When she spoke of characters or words or sentences, it felt as if she were stringing pearls on beautiful ropes, and then she would present you with something lovely. And then walk away. She was always sweet and supportive, and she always knew when to arrive and when to leave.
— Tennessee Williams, speaking on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Follies of God in Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog (Vintage; August 9, 2016) (via Wait-What? & Follies of God, November 28, 2022)