124 Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

The oppressed never free themselves – they do not have the necessary strengths.

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

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, ‘You may be right.’ That’s the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who’s wrong.

Time comes when every man’s got to feel something new – when he’s got to feel young again, just because he’s growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

Nature abhors a virgin – a frozen asset.

Women can’t have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

When a man can’t explain a woman’s actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

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

You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.