Quotes by 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...”

“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”

“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.”

“We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room”

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

“All of the men on my staff can type.”

“The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.”

“Live and Let Live Meat Market.”

“Contract With Women of the USA”

“If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century -- and the economy -- around.”

Maybe we werent at the Last Supper, but were certainly going to be at the next one.

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

Ive spent a lifetime in challenge. Theres no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on womens equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.