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.
BELLA ABZUGI 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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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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.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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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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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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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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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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