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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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 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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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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