Clare Booth 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.' "

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there. "

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. "

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

"No good deed goes unpunished. "

"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world. "