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.
This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
the women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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.
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.
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.
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
All the men on my staff can type.