Clare Boothe Luce
28 quotes
Biography
"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."-"
"I have resolved to grow old, naturally and gracefully, content in the knowledge that the greatest intellects are the homeliest ones, and that the height of sophistication is simplicity."
"Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff."
"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them."
"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
"You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother."
"Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
"No good deed goes unpunished."
"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery."
"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
"In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected."
"In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected."
"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
"Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset."
"If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?"
"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."
"A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
"Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there."
"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."
"The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths."
"There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them."
"I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die."