We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us. — 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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
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 Image
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
