Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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 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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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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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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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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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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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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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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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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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