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Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism and war reportage. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.

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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Littles, Money, Protection, Wealth

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.

Business, Decision, Final, Men, Progress

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

Fewer, Men, President, Sex, Women

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Contacts, Creative, Fall, Lying, Nature, Wholeheartedly

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Brain, Fifty, God, Psychology, Years

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Deeds, Good, Good Deeds, Political, Politics, Unpunished

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

America, Care, Christian, Women, World

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Abhors, Head Of State, Nature, Statesmen, Vacuums

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

Begin, Censorship, Government, Home, Library, Like

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

Avoid, Nervous, Sort, Tic, Tics, Writing

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

Contacts, Creative, Creativity, Increases, Lying

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Like, Men, Sex, Thinking, Thinks

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

Letters, Lick, Men, Politics, Women

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Illusion, Liberal, Morality, Virtue

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

Courage, Ladder, Life, Motivational, Mount, Virtues

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

Bottom, Diversity, Fact, Facts, Justice, Lifting

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Hands, History, Rocks, Shows, World

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.

Inspired, Meat, Play, Smacked

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Communism, Intellectuals, Might, Opiate, Opiates

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

Aisle, Intelligence, Leaves, Party, Remember, Sides

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