Bella Abzug on abortion
Bella Abzug31 quotes“Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.”
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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.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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
Bella AbzugBella 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.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug 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.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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I’m a living abortion.
Big PunBig Pun A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one.
Bernard NathansonBernard Nathanson Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
Betty FordBetty Ford What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?
Bill HicksBill Hicks We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
Bernard NathansonBernard Nathanson The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
Betty DodsonBetty Dodson Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally.
Bernard NathansonBernard Nathanson Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy….As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.
Bernard NathansonBernard Nathanson
