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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. -Clare Boothe Luce.


Clare Boothe Luce

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WALTER ISAACSON They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was i...
CLARE BOOTH LUCE I Have Heard People Say Over & Over Again "He/She Has What It Takes." My Question Is: Will They Do W...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE If it doesnt help, I damned sure dont know what will.
JACK MOORE But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globalo...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does n...
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 e...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a demo...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the da...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a c...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was inven...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and spe...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they hel...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilizatio...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE No good deed goes unpunished.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invent...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I f...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. ...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was i...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could, which I hasten to ...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, th...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Fifty years from now, people will look back upon a Pan American Clipper flight of today as the most ...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single facto...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Thoughts have no sex
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contact...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Love is a verb.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman'...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one t...
ERMA BOMBECK Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make ...
BRANDON SANDERSON I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day
HEINRICH HEINE I am going to make a very beautiful life for myself, no matter what it takes.
ANONYMOUS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up....
DORIS ROBERTS What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
DENNIS ROCH I will give the negotiations one month to succeed. If they fail, I will withdraw from government.
ARBEN XHAFERI I know he would die if you died, Luce
LAUREN KATE I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and...
ROSE GEORGE There is no one dangerous than a lying woman, because everyone believes what women say.
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all;...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell ...
PHILIP PULLMAN We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel expose...
DONNA LYNN HOPE if it takes getting made fun of or teased to be who i am, then i say its worth it.
BAILEY CHANDRA I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it t...
JUDE LAW People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplis...
CURTIS JACKSON I have no crystal ball to say what will happen. I haven't seen it this bad in a long time.
DEAN KNAUER I have some girls who are going to work hard and figure out what it takes to be good players. They w...
DONALYN WOESTE They say I'm skilled, ... I'm not just raw. I'm skilled in the post and I have an advantage there be...
DAVID PADGETT Dont force noone to see your worth, it doesnt matter how much you love them, love yourself first, ev...
JHERRERA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN If you compare this (election) to Clare, something like this might generate 100 (voters), ... I'm no...
CHRIS BURNS Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the hu...
WILLIAM THAYER SHEDD I never say "If I were her, this is how I would have acted, this is what I would have done, etc. etc...
C. JOYBELL C. I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an aut...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ I am encouraged that a few ninth-graders do look like they have what it takes to be really good play...
ERNEST PASCOE I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that s...
JERRY YANG I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON General consultant to mankind.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky moun...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impr...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON It costs you something to do good!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON No man may make another free.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about ...
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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Thoughts have no sex
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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Love is a verb.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
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CLARE BOOTH LUCE There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE No good deed goes unpunished.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn...
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...
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CASSANDRA CLARE You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all m...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
CASSANDRA CLARE Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Look," Luke went on, "In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon w...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“
“She said she doesn’t want it,” sai...
CASSANDRA CLARE I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.
CASSANDRA CLARE Even the Inquisitor's eyebrows shot up when Magnus strode through the gate. The High Warlock was wea...
CASSANDRA CLARE I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.
CASSANDRA CLARE How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling h...
CASSANDRA CLARE Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
"Not this again."
"Not what again?"...
CASSANDRA CLARE There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itse...
CASSANDRA CLARE We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now."
"I was going to watch Project Run...
CASSANDRA CLARE Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Is...
CASSANDRA CLARE You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrib...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinc...
CASSANDRA CLARE Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon.
"...
CASSANDRA CLARE No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures ...
CASSANDRA CLARE You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the...
CASSANDRA CLARE Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A regrettable choice of words," muttered Mag...
CASSANDRA CLARE That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" I...
CASSANDRA CLARE Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
"Foreve...
CASSANDRA CLARE We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on...
CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you w...
CASSANDRA CLARE Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the rese...
CASSANDRA CLARE There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I d...
CASSANDRA CLARE Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Have...
CASSANDRA CLARE There's nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. He's a perfect Scot...
CASSANDRA CLARE So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was tha...
CASSANDRA CLARE Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and...
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