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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

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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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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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.
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Men Sainthood Views

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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