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

Bella Abzug

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
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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Business Country Real
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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Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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
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
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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Justice Pain Passion
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
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
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
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives

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