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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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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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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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 old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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 great man is one sentence.
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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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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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