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About Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce was a 20th-century American author and politician. Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and conservative public intellectual. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment

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“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”
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“A man has only one escape from his old self to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
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“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
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“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”
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“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.”
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