In this video shot at last weekend's National Women's Conference, Rosie O'Donnell explains to a group of tween journalists why they're important to the feminist movement, and tells them who inspired her to become a feminist when she was their age: Bella Abzug. When one young girl frankly admits she has "no idea" who that is, O'Donnell hands her a copy of a forthcoming oral history of the New York congresswoman written by Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom and tells her to read it. And she's not kidding: She wants a book report afterwards! It's really kind of sweet.

(I can't resist publishing the full title: Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way.)