Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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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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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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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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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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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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 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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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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