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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.

Bella Abzug

I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUG

Funny Wife Women
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
BELLA ABZUG

Inspirational Motivational 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
BELLA ABZUG

Challenges Dollars Years
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
BELLA ABZUG

Hats Lawyer Way
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
BELLA ABZUG

Apologizing Half Race
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUG

Abortion Political Rights
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Individuality Promise Suffering
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
BELLA ABZUG

Changing Nature Power Women
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
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
BELLA ABZUG

Lasts Next Women
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
BELLA ABZUG

Business Country Real
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUG

Gay Law Men
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Legs Movement Stronger
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Justice Pain Passion
All the men on my staff can type.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Staff Type

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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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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