When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
BELLA ABZUGNixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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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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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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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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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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