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This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.

Bella Abzug

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
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
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
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
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
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
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
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
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
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational 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
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

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