Clare Boothe Luce

“But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.”

“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.”

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

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”

“There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.”

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.”

“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.”

“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”

“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.”

“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”

“Thoughts have no sex.”

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

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

“Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.”

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