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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

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 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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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 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
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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Believe Career Government
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Lasts Next Women
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
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
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
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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Justice Memorable Struggle
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong 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.
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Country Government Reality

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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