Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
BELLA ABZUGThey 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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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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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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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 am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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