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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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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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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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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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