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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.'
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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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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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 wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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 is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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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