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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.

Bella Abzug

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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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 are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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
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’ve been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.
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Men Mother Names
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men

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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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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