Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

Clare Boothe Luce's Popular Quotes

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

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I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

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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 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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All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

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A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

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