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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

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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Business Country Real
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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.
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Men Mother Names
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
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am — and this ought to be made very clear — I am a very serious woman.
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Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense

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