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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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