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Bella Abzug

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
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
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
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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Believe Career Government
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Justice Pain Passion
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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Legs Movement Stronger
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Individuality Promise Suffering
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
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
Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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Class Country White
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.
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Country Government Reality
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men

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