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
[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
Home is where you hang your architect.
Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.
[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.