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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.
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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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[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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