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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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New York City
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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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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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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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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[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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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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