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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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New York City
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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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 is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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