【美国人物志】克莱尔·布思卢斯 (4/9)

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卢斯夫人（Clare Boothe Luce，1903—1987）：美国女文学家、剧作家、新闻世业家、外交家，生于纽约，为美国报业巨星亨利·卢斯之夫人，1946年改入天主教。1953—1957年任美国驻意大利大使，为美第一位女大使，1957年获Laetare奖，又获西·塞耶奖。
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Clare Boothe Luce
Broadway
the National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
演讲的原文需要写出，O(∩_∩)O谢谢

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Clare Boothe Luce returned to writing plays. Her second play, "The Women," made fun of rich women. It opened on Broadway in 1936. The show was very popular. It was later made into a movie. Another play, "Kiss the Boys Goodbye," also was a success. So was her next play, "Margin For Error." All three plays were noted for their use of sharp language and making fun of human failings. Clare Boothe Luce was known for expressing her opinions. Her most famous saying was: "No good deed goes unpunished." She often spoke about the problems of women trying to succeed in a world mainly controlled by men. She said: "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." She made these comments in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
We women are supposed to be a minority. I've never understood that myself because we outnumber the men in actual numbers, and we live five years longer. So I've never felt like a minority because, as you know, minorities are never supposed to say anything unkind about one another.