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Bella Abzug

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 Lawyer Way
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
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
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
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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Age Race 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
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
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 prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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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Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World
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

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