57 Quotes by Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

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

I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.

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

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.

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

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

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.