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Ann Clare Boothe Luce was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism and war reportage. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.

Politically, Luce was a leading conservative in later life and was well known for her anti-communism. In her youth, she briefly aligned herself with the liberalism of President Franklin Roosevelt as a protégé of Bernard Baruch, but later became an outspoken critic of Roosevelt. Although she was a strong supporter of the Anglo-American alliance in World War II, she remained outspokenly critical of British colonialism in India.Known as a charismatic and forceful public speaker, especially after her conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1946, she campaigned for every Republican presidential candidate from Wendell Willkie to Ronald Reagan. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. March 1903 – 9. October 1987
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Famous Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

“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 The Women

Mrs. Morehead, act I
The Women (1936)

“Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”

Clare Boothe Luce The Women

Edith, act III
The Women (1936)

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

Clare Boothe Luce

Roman Candle (Leticia Baldridge), p. 129 (1956)
Source: This famous quip was first quoted in print by Luce's social secretary Letitia Baldrige in Roman Candle (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1956), 129: "When I would entreat her to engage in resolving a specific case, she replied, 'No good deed goes unpunished, Tish, remember that.'" Oscar Wilde, Billy Wilder, and Andrew Mellon have also been cited as sources, but without written evidence.

“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.”

Clare Boothe Luce

Newsweek (Jan. 24, 1955)

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

Clare Boothe Luce The Women

Little Mary, act III
The Women (1936)

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

Clare Boothe Luce

Europe in the Spring, ch. 12 (1940)

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