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Clare Boothe Luce was an American author, politician, and diplomat, widely recognized for her wit and influential career. Known for her groundbreaking work as a playwright and as the first American woman appointed as a major ambassador. She broke barriers for women in public life and inspired generations through her leadership and accomplishments. Here are 34 of her quotes:

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

Clare Boothe Luce

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt.

Clare Boothe Luce

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Clare Boothe Luce

Greta Garbo A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

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