25 Quotes & Sayings By Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce is an American author known for her political writings, speeches, and newspaper columns. She was the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate. She is perhaps best known as the author of The First Hundred Years: A Personal History of the United States, published posthumously in 1954 Read more

Born in New York City in 1904, Luce was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1950 after serving fifteen years as a member of the House of Representatives. After her death in 1973, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. Clare Boothe Luce
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A man has only one escape from his old self – to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. Clare Boothe Luce
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Clare Boothe Luce
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If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain? Clare Boothe Luce
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Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there. Clare Boothe Luce
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Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Clare Boothe Luce
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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. Clare Boothe Luce
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The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths. Clare Boothe Luce
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce
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I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die. Clare Boothe Luce
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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. Clare Boothe Luce
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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. Clare Boothe Luce
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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." - Clare Boothe Luce
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. Clare Boothe Luce
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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. Clare Boothe Luce
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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.' Clare Boothe Luce
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In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. Clare Boothe Luce
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They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Boothe Luce
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Boothe Luce
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Clare Boothe Luce
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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. Clare Boothe Luce
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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. Clare Boothe Luce
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. Clare Boothe Luce