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.
BELLA ABZUGI’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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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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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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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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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