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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Bella Abzug

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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Individuality Promise Suffering
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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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Legs Movement Stronger
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 ABZUG

Justice Memorable Struggle
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World
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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Class Country White
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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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Business Country Real
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion Political Rights
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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

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