Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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More Bella Abzug Quotes
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am — and this ought to be made very clear — I am a very serious woman.
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I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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The inside operation of Congress – the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building – is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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the women’s movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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