Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

- Bella Abzug

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…

- Bella Abzug

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…

- Bella Abzug

Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, econ…

- Bella Abzug

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

- Bella Abzug

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

- Bella Abzug

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

- Bella Abzug

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

- Bella Abzug

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 a…

- Bella Abzug