Bella Abzug Quotes

I have never let gender get in my way.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

I don't like tokenism. I don't like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.