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.
BELLA ABZUGNever go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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She (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
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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