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Clare Boothe Luce
April 10, 1903 - October 9, 1987
Nationality: American
Category: Dramatist
Subcategory: American Dramatist

Thoughts have no sex.

   

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

   

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

   

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

   

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

   

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

   

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

   

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

   

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

   

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

   

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

   

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".

   

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