"No good deed goes unpunished."
-Clare Boothe Luce
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"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.“
-Clare Boothe Luce
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"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
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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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"In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected."
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"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
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"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
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