Love Is a Verb.
Clare Boothe Luce
Title of play
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought
has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
Clare Boothe Luce
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
On her play, The Women, a castigating
appraisal of wealthy, leisured women who take from rather
than give to society
They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and
I would not, if I could, which I hasten to say I cannot, cross
their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and
gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and
breeding and performance they do not possess.
Clare Boothe Luce
On the women who inspired her play, The
Women
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
Clare Boothe Luce
Nancy in play, The Women
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure
except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
Clare Boothe Luce
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike
charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
I'm in my anecdotage.
Clare Boothe Luce
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
Clare Boothe Luce
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get
to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
Clare Boothe Luce
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable
while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
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
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.
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
On U.S. Vice-President Henry Wallace's
international approach to foreign policy in 1943, in her maiden
speech in House of Representatives
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego,
and lessens the frictions 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 it falls so short of in fact
and in deeds.
Clare Boothe Luce
You see few people here in America who really care very much
about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Boothe Luce
It is time to leave the question of the role of women up
to Mother Nature - a difficult lady to fool. You have only
to give women the same opportunities as men, and you will
soon find out what is or is not in their nature. What is in
women's nature to do they will do, and you won't be able to
stop them. But you will also find, and so will they, that
what is not in their nature, even if they are given every
opportunity, they will not do - and you won't be able to make
them do it.
Clare Boothe Luce
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