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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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 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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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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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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