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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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
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
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
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Men Sainthood Views
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
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
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Challenges Dollars Years
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
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
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
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Individuality Promise Suffering
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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Justice Pain Passion

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