Clare Boothe Luce

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

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

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

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

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

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

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

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

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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.

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