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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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New York City
New York
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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A great man is one sentence.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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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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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.'
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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