They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society….

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

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

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 ….

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

The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career….

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

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

We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion..

I always had a decent sense of outrage..

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge..

the women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has….

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously..

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 ….

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around..

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

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

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

Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gen….

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

In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, bu….