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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.

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.
BELLA ABZUG

Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
BELLA ABZUG

Apologizing Half Race
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
BELLA ABZUG

Done Feminism World
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Individuality Promise Suffering
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Age Race Women
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
BELLA ABZUG

Jobs Memorable Women
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
BELLA ABZUG

Inspirational Motivational Women
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Answer Government President
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUG

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.
BELLA ABZUG

Country Government Reality
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Mother Names
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
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUG

Gay Law Men

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