How Did Clare Boothe Luce Impact The World

Clare Boothe Luce, an editor, playwright, congresswoman, ambassador, and mother, was born in New York City on March 10, 1903. Luce was a woman with vast talent and equally immense ambition. She was highly involved with the history of her times and, as both a leader and celebrity, made a substantial impact not only in America, but on the world. She met with and worked with world leaders and intellectuals at a time when women largely lived behind the scenes. She is noted to have invented the “Pure Success Woman.” She traveled the world during the war as a reporter for Life magazine, served two terms in Congress, where she became known as “a brainy champion of minority groups and trade unions,” and she manipulated immensely rich men, including

Their marriage was short lived and Clare’s biographer Wilfrid Sheed even calls it a “pointless marriage.” They did have one daughter, Ann, who became Clare’s only child. Despite Ann, they divorced in

She exclaimed, “If God is good, why did He take away my daughter?” Sheen beautifully responded, “In order that through that sorrow, you might be here now starting instruction to know Christ and His church.” Over the course of the next five months, Clare took instructions on Catholicism from Sheen. She was officially accepted into the church in 1946. After this, Clare Boothe Luce and Bishop Fulton Sheen remained close personal friends for decades. One letter of Sheen’s even states that he was prouder of Clare than any other