60 Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce was a multifaceted American dramatist, journalist, diplomat, and trailblazing woman in the world of politics and media. Born in 1903, Luce's career was characterized by her intelligence, wit, and ambition. As a playwright, her most famous work, "The Women" (1936), challenged traditional gender norms and explored the complexities of female relationships. Her sharp and satirical writing style gained critical acclaim and established her as a formidable figure in the literary world.
Beyond her achievements in the arts, Luce was also a successful journalist, becoming the first woman to hold a major editorial position at Time magazine. Later in her life, she ventured into politics, serving as a congresswoman and then as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Throughout her career, Luce shattered societal expectations for women, proving that they could excel in various fields and occupy positions of power and influence. Her legacy endures as a testament to the power of intelligence, talent, and determination in breaking down barriers and achieving success.
Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
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.
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.
If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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.
Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.
If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
Home is where you hang your architect.
When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
A great man is one sentence.
Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?
Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.
Guns know no policy except destruction.
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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.
the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?
If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.
― Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
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