Quotes by Clare Luce

• I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
• Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
• A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
• A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
• A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
• Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
• 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".
• But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
• But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
• Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
• Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
• I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
• In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
• It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
• 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.
• Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
• The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
• Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
• Thoughts have no sex.
• They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
• They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
• There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
• 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.
• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
• The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
• Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
• Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
• No good deed goes unpunished.
• Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
• There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.