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

Bella Abzug

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational 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
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
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
BELLA ABZUG

Challenges Dollars Years
I’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
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Men Mother Names
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
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
BELLA ABZUG

Equality Heartless Strong Women

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