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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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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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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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[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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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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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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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