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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.

Bella Abzug

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Jobs Memorable Women
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 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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Age Race 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
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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.
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Justice Pain Passion
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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

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