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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
Ann Clare Boothe Luce
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Autobiography
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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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