Clare Boothe Luce (1903–87) was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism, and war reportage. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life and Fortune.
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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.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Love
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Safety
Always remember, Peggy, it’s matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Jealousy
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that—being what it is—it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Ego, Deception/Lying
You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Divorce
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Women
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Men, Conversation
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Woman knows what Man has too long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Family
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
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Women, Feminism
A man’s home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Men, Home
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.
—Clare Boothe Luce
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Apathy
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Voting, Elections
But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney. Mr. Wallaces warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Bravery, Courage
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Happiness
No good deed goes unpunished.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Service, Pessimism
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Censorship
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Politics
I don’t have a warm personal enemy left. They’ve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Enemies, Enemy
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Thoughts, Thinking, Thought
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Ambition
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Topics: Communism
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