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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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 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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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 can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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