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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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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
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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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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