Quote by Bella Abzug
I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that

I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. – Bella Abzug

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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it. – Bella Abzug

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Men & Women
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. – Bella Abzug

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Feminism
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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… – Bella Abzug

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Equality
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I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. – Ogden Nash

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Women

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he cant find any clean socks. – Jean Kerr

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Women

I didnt want to set up a womens studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, its male-dominated. – Madeleine Albright

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Women

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. – Louise Bogan

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Women

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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. – Author Unknown

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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. – Abdul Kalam

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Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. – Lee H. Hamilton

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