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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

Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Lasts Next Women
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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Individuality Promise Suffering
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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
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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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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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Class Country White
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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Answer Government President
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

Country Government Reality
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

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