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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

I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
BELLA ABZUG

Business Country Real
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
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
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Believe Career Government
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
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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Men Mother Names
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
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

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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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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