Quotes from Clare Boothe Luce

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.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.

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.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

I swim down through liquid green heavens, down through the poem of the sea.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.