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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.
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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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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 was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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[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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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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