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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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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 politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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