Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
An American playwright, editor, journalist, ambassador, socialite and U.S. Congresswoman, representing the state of Connecticut.
(1903 - 1987)
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
[Advertising]
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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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But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
[Begin]
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
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Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
[Courage]
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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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I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
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In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
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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.
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It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
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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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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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