Quotes of Bella Abzug - somelinesforyou

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

- Bella Abzug

“ We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. ”

- Bella Abzug

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

- 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

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

- 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

“ 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 are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. ”

- Bella Abzug

“ 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… ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- 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 are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Bella Abzug

“ I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there mey be a wife someplace else. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it. ”

- 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
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