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.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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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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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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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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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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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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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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All the men on my staff can type.
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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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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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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