Clare Boothe Luce Quotes - Page 4

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• I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

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  Husband, Party, Home

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• I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

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  Justice, Diversity, Facts

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• It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

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  Jealousy, Suicide, Reason

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.85, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

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  Lying, Fall, Creative

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• Thoughts have no sex.

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  Sex

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

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  Mother, Sleep, Divorce

  The Women act 2, sc. 4 (1937)

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• I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

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  Enemy, Died, Warm

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