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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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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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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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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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[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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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