All the men on my staff can type.
BELLA ABZUGThe establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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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.
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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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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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