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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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[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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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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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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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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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 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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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 wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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