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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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