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
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Thoughts have no sex.
Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.