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