Quotes from Bella Abzug

I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

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.

All of the men on my staff can type.

All the men on my staff can type.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

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

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.

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.

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.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

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

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

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.