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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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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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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.
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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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[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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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 you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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