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 ABZUGWomen will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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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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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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