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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.

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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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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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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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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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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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 was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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