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 don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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.
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.