“I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.Bella Abzug
“We don't want so much to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman schlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male schlemiel.Bella Abzug
“There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash and overbearing…. But whatever I am—and this ought to be made very clear at the outset—I am a very serious woman.Bella Abzug