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 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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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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All the men on my staff can type.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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