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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.

Bella Abzug

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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Answer Government President
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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Men Mother Names
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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
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Challenges Dollars Years
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.
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Men Sainthood Views
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
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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Country Government Reality
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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

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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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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