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

Bella Abzug

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Heartless

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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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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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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Impatient Things Thoe Uppity
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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Real
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

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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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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
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

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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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Jobs Memorable
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

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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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Hats Way
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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Memorable
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Outrage
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Feminism
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

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She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
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Challenges Dollars Years
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.

BELLA ABZUG

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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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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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 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.

BELLA ABZUG

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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Stronger
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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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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Sainthood Views
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.

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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.
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Names

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

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