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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.
BELLA ABZUG

Jobs Memorable Women
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
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
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
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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Age Race 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.
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Individuality Promise Suffering
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Justice Memorable Struggle
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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Business Country Real
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Lasts Next Women
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 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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Men Sainthood Views
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense

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