When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug Copy Share
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power… — Bella Abzug Copy Share
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. — Bella Abzug Copy Share
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of… — Bella Abzug Copy Share
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug Copy Share
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women. — Bella Abzug Copy Share
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good… — Bella Abzug Copy Share
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. — Bella Abzug Copy Share
the women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has… — Bella Abzug Copy Share
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two… — Bella Abzug Copy Share
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. — Bella Abzug Copy Share
“Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get… — Bella Abzug Copy Share
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,… — Bella Abzug Copy Share
