Elevating Quote by Bella Abzug

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

— Bella Abzug

I am not a centrist.

— Bella Abzug

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

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

— Bella Abzug

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

All of the men on my staff can type.

— Bella Abzug

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

— Bella Abzug

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

— Bella Abzug

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

— Bella Abzug

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

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

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

— Bella Abzug