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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

Bella Abzug

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.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Sainthood Views
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.
BELLA ABZUG

Country Government Reality
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
BELLA ABZUG

Business Country Real
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Justice Pain Passion
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Believe Career Government
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
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Justice Memorable Struggle
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUG

Abortion Political Rights
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Individuality Promise Suffering
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
BELLA ABZUG

Littles Made Men
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
BELLA ABZUG

Lasts Next Women
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
There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am — and this ought to be made very clear — I am a very serious woman.
BELLA ABZUG

Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity

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