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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Bella Abzug

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
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
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
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
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
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
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
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
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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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Answer Government President

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