Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

I don't see things in terms of gender.

I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything - I've just got to get on with it.

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

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

I have no prejudice against male or female.

I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

Ability is sexless.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

I was intensely ambitious to excel in something; for I felt in my own breast that women were capable of taking a higher place in creation than that assigned them in my early days, which was very low. Nor ... should I have had courage to ask any of them a question, for I should have been laughed at. I was often very sad and forlorn; not a hand held out to help me…. My father came home for a short time, and, somehow or other finding out what I was about, said to my mother, 'Peg, we must put a stop to this, or we shall have Mary in a strait-jacket one of these days'…. I continued my mathematical and other pursuits, but under great disadvantages; for, although my husband did not prevent me from studying, I met with no sympathy whatever from him, as he had a very low opinion of the capacity of my sex, and had neither knowledge of nor interest in science of any kind…. I was considered eccentric and foolish; and my conduct was highly disapproved of by many, especially by some members of my own family…. A man can always command his time under the plea of business: a woman is not allowed any such excuse

Many people say, 'Your dad was so ahead of his time,' and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he's very much for opportunities for all people... To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.

Yeah, it shouldn't be an issue. Stories about women, about men, about homosexuals, about heterosexuals. We shouldn't point at what it is.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Thought has no gender.

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.

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

I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.