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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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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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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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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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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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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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