Clare Boothe Luce Quotes (37 Quotes)




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

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

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


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


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


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

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

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

    A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

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


    Greta Garbo A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

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

    Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.


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

    You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

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

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

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

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


    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.

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

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

    No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt

    To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

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

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

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

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


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