Clare Boothe Luce
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.Collection: Money
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.Collection: Men
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.'Collection: Women
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.Collection: Money
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.Collection: Home
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.Collection: Women
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.Collection: Women
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.Collection: Politics
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.Collection: Politics
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Collection: Courage
No good deed goes unpunished.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
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.
Thoughts have no sex.
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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.
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.Collection: Enemy
I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.Collection: Country
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.Collection: Powerful
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.Collection: Thinking
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.Collection: Autobiography
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.Collection: Opiates
Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.Collection: Party
[In politics] no good deed goes unpunishedCollection: Political
If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.Collection: Mean
I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.Collection: Thinking
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.Collection: Autobiography
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.Collection: Children
The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.Collection: World
If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.Collection: Baby
all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!Collection: Rocks
Guns know no policy except destruction.Collection: Gun
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.Collection: Morality
Home is where you hang your architect.Collection: Badass
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.Collection: Lines
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.Collection: Vacuums