Quotes by Bella Abzug - Page 1

All the men on my staff can type.
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Men
He Man
Staff
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All of the men on my staff can type.
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Staff
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Decent
Outrage
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
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Profession
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Men
Establishment
Frightened
Littles
Made
Little Men
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A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
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House
House Of Representatives
Representatives
Woman
Place
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Equality
Inspirational
Motivational
Women
Laundry
Pedestal
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This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.
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House
House Of Representatives
Representatives
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Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats
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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.
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Apologizing
Half
Race
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality
Being A Strong Woman
Heartless
Strong Women
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Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.
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Women
Lasts
Next
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Equality
Jobs
Women
Memorable
Job
Arrangement
Hold
Test
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done
Feminism
World
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats
Lawyer
Way
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I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny
Women
Homemaker
Housewife
May
Wife
Prefer
Implies
Word
Someplace
Someplace Else
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I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
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Crap
Political
Political Power
Structure
All Day
Beat
Figuring
Spend
Machine
Power Structure
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Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion
Political
Rights
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I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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Business
Country
Real
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We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.
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Men
Gay
Law
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If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
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Government
Country
Reality
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I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
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Men
Sainthood
Views
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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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Class
Country
White
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We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
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Affirming
Human Rights
Range
Acknowledging
Actions
All Women
Detailing
Exists
Prevent
Women And Girls
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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 keep the status quo.
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Status Quo
Change Women Power
Quo
Status
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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 together.
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Ideological
Struggle
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In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
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Government
Answers
President
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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 quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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Female
Justice
Memorable
Struggle
Male
Appointed
Assistant
Einstein
Professor
Promoted
Quickly
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Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
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Equality
Action
Beijing
Consensus
Empowerment
Imperfect
Governments
Platform
Produced
Statement
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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 as every other individual.
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Individuality
Promise
Suffering
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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, someone would ask me to get coffee.
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Coffee
Hats
Identity
Meeting Someone
Began
Establish
Wearing
Helped
Meeting
Whenever
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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 women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
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Business World
Hats
Secretary
Business Women World
Bar
Became
Days
Wearing
Wore
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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 women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
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Challenges
Dollars
Years
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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 to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
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Justice
Pain
Passion
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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
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Women
Age
Race
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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 never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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Legs
Movement
Stronger
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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.
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Institutions
Past
Vision
Women Are
Bringing
Craft
Let Us
Policies
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The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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Government
Believe
Careers
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Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.
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Change
Dream
Struggle
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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 from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.
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Women
Giving
Years
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I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.
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