Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUGI always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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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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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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