American - Lawyer | July 24, 1920 - March 31, 1998
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.
Bella Abzug
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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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Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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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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A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
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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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I am not a centrist.
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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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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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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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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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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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