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Bella Abzug

b: New York, New York., Jul 24, 1920

d: New York, New York., Mar 31, 1998

"Battling Bella". American. Lawyer. Politician. First Jewish congresswoman, Dem. From NY; wide-brimmed hats were trademark.

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"It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs."

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

All of the men on my staff can type.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.

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.

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.

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

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

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

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.

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

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

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

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it.

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

With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Women have been and are prejudiced, narrowminded, reactionary, even violent. Some women. They, of course, have a right to vote and a right to run for office. I will defend that right, but I will not support them or vote for them.

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

… there is on our soil nowadays such a being as an American, who feels, wherever he goes in our native land, that it is all his, and that he belongs everywhere to it.