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If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.

Bella Abzug

Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all – every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
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Age Race Women
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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Justice Pain Passion
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.
BELLA ABZUG

Country Government Reality
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion Political Rights
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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Business Country Real
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
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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Challenges Dollars Years
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Lasts Next Women
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense

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