But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
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.
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.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
No good deed goes unpunished.
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.
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.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
Thoughts have no sex.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
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.
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.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
The oppressed never free themselves – they do not have the necessary strengths.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)
Nature abhors a virgin – a frozen asset.
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.
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?
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)