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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

I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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
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
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
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
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
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
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
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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

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