Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished.

— Clare Boothe Luce

But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney. Mr. Wallaces warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Marriage is a business of taking care of a man and rearing his children … It ain’t meant to be no perpetual honeymoon.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

— Clare Boothe Luce

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women’s chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

— Clare Boothe Luce