Quotes from Clare Boothe Luce

"No good deed goes unpunished."

“It is time to leave the question of the role of women up to Mother Nature -- a difficult lady to fool. You have only to give women the same opportunities as men, and you will soon find out what is or is not in their nature. What is in women's nature to do they will do, and you won't be able to stop them. But you will also find, and so will they, that what is not in their nature, even if they are given every opportunity, they will not do -- and you won't be able to make them do it."

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

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

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

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes." (Mrs. Morehead in CBL's play The Women)

"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.'"

"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."

"The politicians were talking themselves red, white, and blue in the face."

"Nature abhors a virgin -- a frozen asset." (Nancy in CBL's play The Women)

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