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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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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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 was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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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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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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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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[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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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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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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