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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

I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
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
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
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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
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
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
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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