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.
Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce

Thoughts have no sex.
Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

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

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
Clare Boothe Luce

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".
Clare Boothe Luce