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Famous Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
“If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.”
“I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.”
“If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.”
“I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.”
“If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.”
“Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.”
“Guns know no policy except destruction.”
“Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.”
“I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.”
“the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.”
“Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.”
“If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.”
“They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.”
“There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.”
“Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.”
“I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.”
“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
“It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”