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.
BELLA ABZUGthe 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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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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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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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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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