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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Bella Abzug

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
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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Business Country Real
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong 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
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
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 are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type

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