“There are those that say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash and overbearing … but whatever I am – and this ought to be made very clear at the outset – I am a very serious woman.”

Bella Abzug

1920-1998

Excerpt from “Bella!”

1972

This Saturday, a coalition of abortion rights organizations will demonstrate across the United States on a day of national action. The “Bans Off Our Bodies” march begins in Washington D.C. on the National Mall and will be held locally in front of Los Angeles City Hall.

*source: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations