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
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
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.
All of the men on my staff can type.
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
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.
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.
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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.
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
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.