Clare Booth Luce

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.