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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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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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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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