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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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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New York City
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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a 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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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 can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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