Quotes by Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Luce, Clare Boothe on divorce   

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

Luce, Clare Boothe on elections   

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

Luce, Clare Boothe on enemies   

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

Luce, Clare Boothe on family   

"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."

Luce, Clare Boothe on feminism   

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

Luce, Clare Boothe on home   

"Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."

Luce, Clare Boothe on jealousy   

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed."

Luce, Clare Boothe on lies and lying   

"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world."

Luce, Clare Boothe on apathy   

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

Luce, Clare Boothe on love
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"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not."

Luce, Clare Boothe on thoughts and thinking   

"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

Luce, Clare Boothe on women
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"No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]"

Luce, Clare Boothe on comfort   

"Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff."

Luce, Clare Boothe on communism and socialism   

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

Luce, Clare Boothe on courage   

"They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented yb men."

Luce, Clare Boothe on talking