Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
BELLA ABZUGNixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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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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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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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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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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.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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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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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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