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Tributes to Abzug included an unprecedented
memorial meeting in the UN General Assembly
chamber. There Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General,
pledged to ensure that the doors Bella had opened
would, "remain open from this day forth. Bella's
legacy shall endure."
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At Abzug's funeral, Geraldine Ferraro phrased it
another way- "She didn't knock politely on the
door. She didn't even push it open or batter it
down. She took it off the hinges forever."
Remembrances from both friends and enemies filled the
press. Hillary Clinton told of women around the world
introducing themselves as, "the Bella Abzug of Russia, or...
the Bella Abzug of Uganda," while her husband commented that,
"Our society is more just and compassionate," because Abzug,
"lived and worked among us.
In Kenya, Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green
Belt Movement, memorialized Bella as "a pioneer"
who, "dared to walk into the unknown..." In the
U.S., Gloria Steinem remembered her as not just,
"the woman who fought the revolution. She was the
woman we want to be after the revolution." And many
recalled one often repeated quote: "In a perfectly
just republic," wrote John Kenneth Galbraith in
1984, "Bella Abzug would be president."
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