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Clare Boothe Luce was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad.

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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt

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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, it is more often his nursery.

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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.

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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

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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 forbearance, 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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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

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There are no hopeless situations; There are only people 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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