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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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 don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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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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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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