Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist

United States

1903 - 1987

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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
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 woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
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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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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
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