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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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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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