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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.

Bella Abzug

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUG

Gay Law Men
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
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
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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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Answer Government President
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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Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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

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