Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
BELLA ABZUGOur struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
BELLA ABZUGShe (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
BELLA ABZUGI prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUGIf we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.
BELLA ABZUGAbortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUGWe need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUGWhen I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
BELLA ABZUGThere 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.
BELLA ABZUGNixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
BELLA ABZUGWe have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
BELLA ABZUGI am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
BELLA ABZUGThis woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
BELLA ABZUGThe 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 ABZUGNever go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
BELLA ABZUGCongress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
BELLA ABZUGAll the men on my staff can type.
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