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I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Bella Abzug

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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Class Country White
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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Men Mother Names
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
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
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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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
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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Legs Movement Stronger
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
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion Political Rights
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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 are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational 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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
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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Justice Memorable Struggle
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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Justice Pain Passion

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

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