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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
Diplomat
Dramatist
Journalist
Playwright
Politician
Screenwriter
Socialite
Writer
New York City
New York
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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[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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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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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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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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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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 do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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