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.
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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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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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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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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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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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