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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Bella Abzug

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
the women’s movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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Legs Movement Stronger
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
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
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
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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
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

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