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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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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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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Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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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A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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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 need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
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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 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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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.
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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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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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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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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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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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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.
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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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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
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I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.