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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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[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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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[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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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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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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