Bella Abzug Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.
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The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.
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I feel confident that I'm presenting myself in a feminist way that is good for young women.
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The world is a penal institution.
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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.
