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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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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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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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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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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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