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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
Actor
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New York City
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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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 have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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