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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
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New York City
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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[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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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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[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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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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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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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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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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