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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

Bella Abzug

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Jobs Memorable Women
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Lasts Next Women
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
In 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.
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Answer Government President
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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Business Country Real
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion Political Rights
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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Age Race Women
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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Country Government Reality
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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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Men Mother Names
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
the 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.
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Legs Movement Stronger

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