Bella Abzug Men Quotations

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.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

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.

We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

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.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

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.

All the men on my staff can type.

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.

All of the men on my staff can type.

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

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.