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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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 do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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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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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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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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