Quotes By Clare Boothe Luce

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

Thoughts have no sex.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

No good deed goes unpunished.

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

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

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

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".

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

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.