The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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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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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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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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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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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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