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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.

Bella 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.
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Age Race Women
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World
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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Believe Career Government
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
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion Political Rights
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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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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.
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Justice Pain Passion
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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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Men Sainthood Views
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
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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Legs Movement Stronger
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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Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women

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