The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
BELLA ABZUGWomen have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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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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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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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 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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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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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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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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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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