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Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

Bella Abzug

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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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Class Country White
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUG

Gay Law Men
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUG

Abortion Political Rights
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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

Believe Career Government
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World

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