Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Lucewas an American author, politician, US Ambassador and notable public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism, and war reportage. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth10 April 1903
CountryUnited States of America
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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.
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?
Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.