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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bella Abzug

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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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Country Government Reality
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
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
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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Justice Memorable Struggle
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power 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
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

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