To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
Clare Boothe LuceH. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
Clare Boothe LuceNo woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
Clare Boothe LuceThey say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce