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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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New York City
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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A great man is one sentence.
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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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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[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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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