Bella Abzug

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

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. ”

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

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'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession. ”

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. ”

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence. ”

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. ”