Bella Abzug Quotes

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 would ask me to get coffee.

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

People have told me, 'You shouldn't bring your daughter onto the podium, 'cause it's the workplace,' and things like that. But I'm not gonna really listen to that. I'm gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything'll be all right.

I wear mostly black Main Line or T… But the other day, the sun was shining so I wore blue jeans. It caused so much excitement in the office! People were literally coming up from the floor below and peering behind my desk saying; we hear you’re wearing blue jeans and we have to have a look

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down.

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.

One of the ways that my show has been most successful is when it's dealing with women's issues, like Spanx and plucking and having heavy tits. That's why it feels like, creatively, an advantage.

And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.

a woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.

Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

I usually wear casual clothes to the office. I wear a suit maybe two or three times a month, and usually only when I need to meet with the head office.

Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.