Bella Abzug Death Cause and Date

Bella Abzug's Death

Born (Birthday) July 24, 1920

Death Date March 31, 1998

Age of Death 77 years

Cause of Death Surgical Complications

Profession Politician

The politician Bella Abzug died at the age of 77. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Remembered as a leader of the American Feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, she was both a founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus and a Member of the United States House of Representatives for New York’s 19th and 20th congressional districts.

Born Bella Savitsky, she grew up in New York City as the daughter of Russian-Jewish parents. She later married Martin Abzug.

Bella led WEDO until her death, giving her final public speech before the UN in March 1998. After battling breast cancer for a number of years, she developed heart disease and died at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center on March 31, 1998, from complications following open heart surgery.

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A woman’s place is in the house – the House of Representatives.

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When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

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I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

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As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

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