I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before … - Bella Abzug

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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

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.

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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

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

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

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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure. . . no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

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Material things aren't important to me.

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