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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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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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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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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.
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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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[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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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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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