Bella Abzug Quotes
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Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.
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Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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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I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
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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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We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
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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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I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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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.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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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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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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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A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
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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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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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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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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.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
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As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.