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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 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 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.
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Believe Career Government
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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
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
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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
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

Class Country White
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
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
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
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men

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