Clare Booth Luce (1903-1987)

Quotes

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

• 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.'

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

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

• Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

• No good deed goes unpunished.

• Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

• There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

• Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

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

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

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