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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.

Bella Abzug

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
BELLA ABZUG

Inspirational Motivational Women
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
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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’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
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
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
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World
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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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
BELLA ABZUG

Lasts Next Women
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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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Challenges Dollars Years
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

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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