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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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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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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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