460 quotes found
“Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there”
“I am made of a thousand ghosts, only you can shoot me down.”
“Ok.. So are you goin’a let him bluetube your tweeter?”
“Yes I am dark, but my eyes are full of stars.”
“'Mallory,' he used to say, 'When a woman who can break you in half tells you that you're hers, you nod and agree.'”
“I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily,...”
“Because my mother was Ingrid Bergman and my father was Roberto Rossellini, I was intimidated about becoming an actress and a director…Both [in terms of her parents’ reputations upon entering the ac...”
“…I have not even been nominated for one. But it doesn’t affect me any more. This is the great thing about getting old: things that preoccupied you when you were young cease to preoccupy you. I woul...”
“Women executives have a different sensitivity. Male executives only understood makeup or fashion as an instrument of seduction, because that was addressed to them. They didn’t understand that we li...”
“I’m not there now to represent beauty; I’m there to represent a different dream. It may be defined as joyfulness; life goes on and there are many chapters. I think that’s why they keep me.”
“Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter and more wrinkles, and that’s not so good, but there is a freedom that comes with it. The freedom is: I better do what I want to do now, because I’l...”
“When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.”
“When I went to represent my law firm anywhere—I was a young kid just out of college—I said, How do you do? I'm Bella Abzug from the law firm of such and such, and people would say, Yes, fine, fine,...”
“Just imagine for a moment what life in this country might have been if women had been properly represented in Congress. Would a Congress where women in all their diversity were represented tolerate...”
“When it comes to child care, the United States is at a primitive stage compared to countries like Israel, Denmark, Sweden and Russia. (p 39)”
“All I say is that anybody who thinks he can take me lightly because I'm fresh and colorful had better watch out. (p 49)”
“Ever since my youth I've been a Zionist, and I worked hard for the cause of a Jewish homeland too. I've visited Israel and I raised my kids with a very strong background in Jewish culture. Besides ...”
“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes. (p. 80)”
“Then up gets Carl Albert to tell us he supports Bolling's resolution because he wants to see us work together with the Republicans to end the war. I was appalled! Here was the Speaker of the House-...”
“Without getting scientific or psychological or historical about it, it's long been my judgment that women have been at the forefront of social change. When we first got the vote, we used it to clea...”
