Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug, nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She declared, "This woman's place is in the House—the House of Representatives", in her successful 1970 campaign. She was later appointed to chair the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year and to plan the 1977...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 July 1920
CountryUnited States of America
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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.
Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.
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.
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.
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.