Author: Clare Boothe Luce

Quotes

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

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

- 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

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

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

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

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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