Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
BELLA ABZUGWomen will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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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 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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