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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
Actor
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New York City
New York
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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