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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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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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[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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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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