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
BELLA ABZUGNever go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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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 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 always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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.
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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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