Bella Abzug Quotes

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

… the term "equality" as applied in Mexico has a very restricted meaning in comparison with the meaning given it in other parts of the world. In Mexico it means that all persons, regardless of learning, preparation or ethics, are equally qualified for governmental positions.

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did.

I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

To men is allotted what they earn and to women what they earn

Perhaps the major challenge during my time in office was getting employers to understand how much more needed to be done to give women their fair share of employment opportunities.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

… better a glass door than a glass ceiling.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

If women are given equal pay for Civil Service jobs, maybe other employers will do the same.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

Now let us see if any of you, blind Priests, can speak after this manner, and see if it be not a better Sermon than any of you can make, who are against Women's Speaking.