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.
BELLA ABZUGI’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
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I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
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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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
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I’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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