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
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?
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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.
I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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.