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Bella Abzug31 quotes“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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug 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.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug 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.
Bella AbzugBella Abzug 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 AbzugBella Abzug The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
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Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France and the United States,
Boris BrasolBoris Brasol True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
Sogyal RinpocheSogyal Rinpoche I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real friendships it was a huge change. I still struggle with it because it is not familiar ground.
Bonnie St. JohnBonnie St. John This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death.
Sogyal RinpocheSogyal Rinpoche Because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain.
Bohumil HrabalBohumil Hrabal I’m about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.
Bob OdenkirkBob Odenkirk Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.
Bob HawkeBob Hawke Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
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