Author: Clare Boothe Luce

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

No good deed goes unpunished.

No good deed goes unpunished.

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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