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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Bella Abzug

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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Challenges Dollars Years
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
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
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 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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational 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
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
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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Justice Memorable Struggle
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
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Individuality Promise Suffering
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
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
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type

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