Bella Abzug Quotes

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Bella Abzug

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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

Malcolm Gladwell
- Why
- Society
- Health
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Jackie Robinson
- Money
- Help
- Mother
But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

Waylon Jennings
- People
- Music
- Voice
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

Dan Aykroyd
- Heart
- Guy
- Nice
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Camille Paglia
- Children
- Power
- Society
I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.

Obiageli Ezekwesili
- Friends
- Child
- Fight