Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
BELLA ABZUGWe have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
More Bella Abzug Quotes
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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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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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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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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All the men on my staff can type.
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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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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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