Bella Abzug Quotes

 "Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race." ~ Bella Abzug

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

 "Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women." ~ Bella Abzug

 "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." ~ Bella Abzug

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

 "I always had a decent sense of outrage." ~ Bella Abzug

 "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." ~ Bella Abzug

 "Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one." ~ Bella Abzug

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

 "Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one." ~ Bella Abzug

 "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

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

 "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." ~ Bella Abzug

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

 "We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it." ~ Bella Abzug

 "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." ~ Bella Abzug

 "We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room." ~ Bella Abzug

 "I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business." ~ Bella Abzug

 "All the men on my staff can type." ~ Bella Abzug

 "The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened." ~ Bella Abzug

 "When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously." ~ Bella Abzug