Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
BELLA ABZUGWomen have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
BELLA ABZUGAbortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUGIn 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.
BELLA ABZUGThe test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
BELLA ABZUGWe need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUGOur 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.
BELLA ABZUGAll the men on my staff can type.
BELLA ABZUGThis woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
BELLA ABZUGI 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.
BELLA ABZUGThey 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.
BELLA ABZUGWomen 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.
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.
BELLA ABZUGI am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
BELLA ABZUGWe have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
BELLA ABZUGI 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.
BELLA ABZUGIf 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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