I always had a decent sense of outrage.
BELLA ABZUGthe 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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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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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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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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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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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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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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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