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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 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
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
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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Country Government Reality
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
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
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
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
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power 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 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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Jobs Memorable Women

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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