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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

Bella Abzug

This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
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 am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
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Men Sainthood Views
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Believe Career Government

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

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