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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.

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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New York City
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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.
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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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 have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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