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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.
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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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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