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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.

Bella Abzug

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
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
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power 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
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife 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
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
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
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
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
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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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