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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

Bella Abzug

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
BELLA ABZUG

Inspirational Motivational Women
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
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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Justice Pain Passion
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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Answer Government President
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
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power 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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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

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