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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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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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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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