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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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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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[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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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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 know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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