Bella Abzug Quotes

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• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
• I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
• I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting,…
• Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as…
• They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then…
• Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all -…
• If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy -…
• They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society…
• Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
• This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.
• The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
• All the men on my staff can type.
• Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
• She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying…
• In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged…
• When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
• We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
• I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
• I always had a decent sense of outrage.
• Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

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