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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.
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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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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