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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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