“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

“Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.”

“We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.”

“Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.”

“I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.”

“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,...”