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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.

Bella Abzug

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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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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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Class Country White
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
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
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
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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Believe Career Government
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 ABZUG

Justice Pain Passion
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
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle

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