All the men on my staff can type.
BELLA ABZUGWomen have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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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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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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.
BELLA ABZUGthe 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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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.
BELLA ABZUGI 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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
BELLA ABZUGThe test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUGI 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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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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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.
BELLA ABZUGIn 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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