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
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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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All the men on my staff can type.
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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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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Our 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.
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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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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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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 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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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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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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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