Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
BELLA ABZUGWe have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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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