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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
Diplomat
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Politician
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New York City
New York
Ann Clare Boothe Luce
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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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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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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
[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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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Boothe Luce
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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Thoughts have no sex.
Clare Boothe Luce
[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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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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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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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.'
Clare Boothe Luce
I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
Clare Boothe Luce
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
Clare Boothe Luce
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
Clare Boothe Luce
the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
Clare Boothe Luce
I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
Clare Boothe Luce
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Clare Boothe Luce
