@history.hub47: Of the five Kennedy sisters, Patricia was considered the most beautiful—she had her mother's aristocratic air, an athletic grace, and a face that could have made her a star, but she never had her family's legendary fire for competition, and in her book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that Rose Kennedy was bothered by Patricia's lack of ambition, reportedly saying that "although she had a good mind, a fine physique and a beautiful face," Patricia "would never make the effort to achieve distinction," though Patricia's son Christopher Lawford saw it differently, writing in his memoir that his mother resented her father for "not being allowed fully to live up to her potential" — because Patricia Kennedy Lawford lived a life of beauty, art, and quiet independence, never chasing power and never needing to, choosing her own path, which is sometimes its own kind of distinction. Do you think quiet lives are undervalued in families that prize ambition? #PatriciaKennedyLawford #KennedyFamily #RoseKennedy #FamilyLegacy #WomensHistory

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