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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
Actor
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New York City
New York
Ann Clare Boothe Luce
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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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.
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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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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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