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Bella Abzug

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
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUG

Funny Wife 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.
BELLA ABZUG

Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
BELLA ABZUG

Hats Lawyer Way
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
BELLA ABZUG

Business Country Real
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
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Sainthood Views
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
BELLA ABZUG

Changing Nature Power Women
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUG

Gay Law Men
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
BELLA ABZUG

Jobs Memorable Women
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
BELLA ABZUG

Inspirational Motivational Women
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Answer Government President
All the men on my staff can type.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Staff Type
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
BELLA ABZUG

Done Feminism World
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUG

Abortion Political Rights

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