Clare Booth Luce Quotes

"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
-Clare Booth 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 Booth Luce

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
-Clare Booth Luce in Courage quotes.

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

"Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."
-Clare Booth Luce

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
-Clare Booth Luce in Lies quotes.

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
-Clare Booth Luce

"There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife."
-Clare Booth Luce