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.
BELLA ABZUGIn 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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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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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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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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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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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