Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Thoughts have no sex.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.

I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employment and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I don't see things in terms of gender.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.