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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.
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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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
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
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
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power 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
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
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
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race

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