Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

About Clare Boothe Luce:

Clare Boothe Luce 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, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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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I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

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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

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

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Author Bio

  • NameClare Boothe Luce
  • DescriptionAmerican writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist
  • BornMarch 10, 1903
  • DiedOctober 9, 1987
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Diplomat; Journalist; Playwright; Writer
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom