Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist

1903-03-10 – 1987-10-09

Clare Boothe Luce was an American playwright, politician, and diplomat. She wrote the play The Women and later served as U.S. ambassador to Italy. She was born in New York City and remained a prominent public figure in American political and cultural life.

Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
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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.'
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
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Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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There's nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
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