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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.
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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Thoughts have no sex.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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