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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

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
BELLA ABZUG

Inspirational Motivational Women
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
BELLA ABZUG

Changing Nature Power Women
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Sainthood Views
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
BELLA ABZUG

Individuality Promise Suffering
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
BELLA ABZUG

Hats Lawyer Way
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
BELLA ABZUG

Gay Law Men
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
BELLA ABZUG

Justice Pain Passion
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
BELLA ABZUG

Funny Wife Women
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’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.
BELLA ABZUG

Men Mother Names
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.
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Apologizing Half Race
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
BELLA ABZUG

Lasts Next Women
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
BELLA ABZUG

Littles Made Men
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
BELLA ABZUG

Abortion Political Rights
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.
BELLA ABZUG

Justice Memorable Struggle

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