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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

This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all – every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
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Age Race Women
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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Justice Memorable Struggle
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
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
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
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
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 prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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
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.
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Gay Law 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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