Clare Boothe Luce quotes

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— 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

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”

— 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

“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— 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

“Thoughts have no sex.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Clare Boothe Luce