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
I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.
A great man is one sentence.
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.
Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.
[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
Guns know no policy except destruction.
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.