Bella Abzug Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Bella Abzug:

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

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

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All of the men on my staff can type.

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

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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.

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I am not a centrist.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

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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.

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When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

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

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

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

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