I always had a decent sense of outrage.
BELLA ABZUGOur struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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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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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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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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