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 ABZUGI prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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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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 need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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