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
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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.
the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
[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.
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.