About Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Lucewas an American writer, politician, U.S. ambassador, and public conservative figure. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast.

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

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

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

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

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

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Thoughts have no sex.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

The oppressed never free themselves – they do not have the necessary strengths.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Technological man can’t believe in anything that can’t be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

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

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

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

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

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.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

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

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decision, the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Nature abhors a virgin – a frozen asset.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Clare Boothe Luce

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)