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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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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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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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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
Clare Boothe Luce
I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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