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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Bella Abzug

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
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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’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
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
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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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Age Race Women
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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Challenges Dollars Years
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
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

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