As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on… — 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
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice… — 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
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe… — 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 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
