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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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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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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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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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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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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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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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
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From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going.
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There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.
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People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.
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If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
