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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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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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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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