Bella Abzug Quotes

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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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  Mother, Men, Names

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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

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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, Race, Age

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

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  Strong Women, Equality, Heartless

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• Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

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  Race, Half, Apologizing

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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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• 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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  Pain, Passion, Justice

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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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  Jobs, Women, Memorable

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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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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  Country, White, Class

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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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  Struggle, Memorable, Justice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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, Wife

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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, Years, Giving

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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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  Believe, Careers, Government

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• I always had a decent sense of outrage.

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  Outrage, Decent

  Bella S. Abzug, Mim Kelber (1984). “Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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

  Bella S. Abzug, Mim Kelber (1984). “Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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, Identity, Meeting Someone

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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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  Stronger, Movement, Legs

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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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  Gay, Men, Law

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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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• Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

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  Rights, Abortion, Political

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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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  Country, Reality, Government

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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, President, Answers

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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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  Feminism, Done, World

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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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• 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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  Years, Challenges, Dollars

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