Author: Clare Boothe Luce

Quotes

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

- 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.

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

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.'

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

No good deed goes unpunished.

No good deed goes unpunished.

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

- 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.

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

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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