Author: Clare Boothe Luce

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

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