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.
BELLA ABZUGIn 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.
BELLA ABZUGThe establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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 ABZUGI always had a decent sense of outrage.
BELLA ABZUGNever go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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 ABZUGThis woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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 ABZUGAll the men on my staff can type.
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 ABZUGNixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
BELLA ABZUGThe inside operation of Congress – the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building – is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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 ABZUGI prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUGI’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.
BELLA ABZUGThe test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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