I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. – 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… – Bella Abzug
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. – Bella Abzug
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it. – Bella Abzug
Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. – James Thurber