Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
BELLA ABZUGWomen will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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 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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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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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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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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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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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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