Bella Abzug Quotes
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
Quotes to Explore
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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Great men marry great women.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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We're both strong, and there's something that all Southern women have in common - the survivor instinct.
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I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
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For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
