Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
BELLA ABZUGNever go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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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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