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I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.

Bella Abzug

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
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 prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
the women’s movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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Legs Movement Stronger
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
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
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
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
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 have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
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
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power 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

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