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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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