We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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More Bella Abzug Quotes
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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I’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
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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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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.
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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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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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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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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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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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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