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.
From 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.
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
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.
All of the men on my staff can type.
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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