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.
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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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The 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.
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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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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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