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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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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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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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[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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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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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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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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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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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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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