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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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 don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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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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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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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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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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