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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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 can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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