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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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