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Women Quotes by Bella Abzug
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
- 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…
- Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all -…
- Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
- 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.
- Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
- Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.
- We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
- Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
- When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional…
- We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
- As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and…
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- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
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- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
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