Clare Boothe Luce - The Women (1939)

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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

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There's nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

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Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

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

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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

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If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

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