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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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 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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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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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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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[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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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