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

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Source : Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

Bella Abzug

#Jobs Quotes #Women Quotes #Memorable Quotes

“And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.”
“I had just sat down at a table with Star [Jones] and, bam, it just popped all over Star's shoes. Star was like, 'What is that!?' I said, 'My water broke!'”
“I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.”

Source : "Nat and Alex Wolff". Interview with Christy Purington, www.timeout.com. July 20, 2009.
“It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton
“I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.”
“The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side”

Source : Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”
“As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.”
“... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.”

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