Famous Quotes

"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.'"

Clare Boothe Luce on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

• "A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."

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

• "Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."

• "No good deed goes unpunished."

• "Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."