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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!
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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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A great man is one sentence.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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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 are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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