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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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