Top 18 Quotes by Bella Abzug

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

All of the men on my staff can type.

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

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.

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.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

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

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.

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.