I always had a decent sense of outrage.
BELLA ABZUGWe are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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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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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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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 have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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