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Bella Abzug

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
BELLA ABZUG

Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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’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
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Hats Lawyer Way
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
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 will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type

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