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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.
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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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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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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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