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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
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
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Jobs Memorable Women
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
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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Believe Career Government
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
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
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
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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Business Country Real
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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Justice Memorable Struggle
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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.
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Individuality Promise Suffering

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