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Anger over Abzug firing...
...woman inside." As Susan and Martin Tolchin wrote in their book Clout?Womanpower and Politics, "The smoke-filled rooms, bour-bon-and-branch-water rites and all-night poker games exclude women from the fellowship and cronyism that seal the bonds of power." Says former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug...
...Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions of femininity. Says she: "If I were a man, they would have said I was strong, courageous and a leader. Instead, I was called abrasive and aggressive." Washington Pollster Peter Hart finds that older...
...eminent goldbug, a professional pessimist, Deak understands the psychology of people who have lost faith in mere money and paper shares. Critics, including many stockbrokers, say that Deak has a great 17th century mind, that his views would make Marie Antoinette look like Bella. Abzug. But his opinions are important, since so many nervous people share them...
...lost). When her role as wife and mother became an issue, she retorted: "My husband Fred says a woman's place is in the house-the U.S. House of Representatives." A similar line was used that same year by another woman politician of considerably different views -Bella Abzug...