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Bella Abzug

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
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Class Country White
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power 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.
BELLA ABZUG

Individuality Promise Suffering
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUG

Funny Wife Women
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Believe Career Government
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
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.
BELLA ABZUG

Country Government Reality
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
BELLA ABZUG

Done Feminism World
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Sainthood Views
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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

Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
BELLA ABZUG

Inspirational Motivational Women
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type

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