Clare Boothe LuceThinkers

Childhood is a blissful time of play and fantasizing, of uninhibited sensual delight.

Civilization 1s 2ltimate economic and spiritual unit is the family.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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

Diplomacy is the one political career for which women are perfectly suitable.

The Family is the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization.

Financial independence is important — A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

A Good deed never goes unpunished.

Japan is not newly postmodern, but rather is traditionally already a 'postmodern' society insofar as the 'metanarrative' has never been important, aesthetics have always been central, an emphasis on context creates a form of relativism, and ultimately, capitalist consumption could itself easily be turned into an art form.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.