This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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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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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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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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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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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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 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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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