When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
BELLA ABZUG
Related Topics
Memorable
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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
-
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
BELLA ABZUG -
-
-
-
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.
BELLA ABZUG -
-
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.
BELLA ABZUG -
-
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
BELLA ABZUG -
-
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.
BELLA ABZUG -
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
BELLA ABZUG -
-
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
BELLA ABZUG -
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.
BELLA ABZUG -
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
BELLA ABZUG