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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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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 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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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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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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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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