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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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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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 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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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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