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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.

Bella Abzug

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
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 need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
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
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
BELLA ABZUG

Lasts Next 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
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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.
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Men Sainthood Views

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