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 ABZUGAll the men on my staff can type.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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All the men on my staff can type.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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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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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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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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