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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

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