Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUGMaybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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