Act 1, Scene 11

Question 1

(1) Connie: You got a letter, babe, from Sarah Weddington?

Answer 1

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.

Question 2

(2) [Norma reads the letter as Sarah speaks it.] Sarah: …willing to go public-

Answer 2

Now?

Question 3

(3) Sarah: appointed to the Supreme Court.

Answer 3

So you need my help?

Question 4

(4) Sarah: Hope all is well. Best, Sarah.

Answer 4

“Best, Sarah.” Why can’t people just say what they mean? “Fuck you, Sarah.” [Do line of coke.] I see all them college-girl feminists on the TV going on about Roe? I mean, I’m the one that did it, Connie, shit, I am Roe - and I never got nothin’ out of it, not an abortion, nothin’!

Question 5

(5) Connie: Well, maybe it’s time to take some damn credit.

Answer 5

[To Sarah.] Okay.

Question 6

(6) Sarah: Good.

Answer 6

[Norma does a line of coke.] Wonder how much they pay you to go on the TV…

Question 7

(7) Uma: …ask you a few questions. Ready?

Answer 7

Just a sec. [Run to Connie.] Gimmie the vodka. [Take pills from pocket.]

Question 8

(8) Connie: Easy on that Valium, babe-

Answer 8

Don’t judge, it was the eighties. [Swallow pills. Down vodka. Run to Uma.]

Question 9

(9) Uma: Roe v. Wade.

Answer 9

Well, Uma, I was a single pregnant woman down on my luck and I needed to get an abortion…‘cause I’d been raped. And it just makes me so mad to see all these anti-abortion people trying to turn back my law.

Question 10

(10) TV Newsman: Norma, I’m -

Answer 10

I know who you are! Just a sec. [Bottle. Pills. Down.]

Question 11

(11) TV Newsman: …talk about the rape.

Answer 11

Oh, gee… I wasn’t raped. I lied. ‘Cause I thought it would help the case.

Question 12

(12) TV Newsman: … on national television?

Answer 12

Yes I am. I wasn’t raised to lie, and it’s just killin’ me.

Question 13

(13) Friendly: … all expenses paid.

Answer 13

Uh… Okay…

Question 14

(14) Manheim: … fifty thousand dollars.

Answer 14

Okay…

Question 15

(15) Holly Hunter: … you know, like girlfriends.

Answer 15

Okay!

Question 16

(17) Holly Hunter: Thank you!

Answer 16

‘Bout the only people who didn’t want to become friends were the feminists. [Feminists enter.] I went to a march in Washington, I was supposed to be on this panel? Everyone was there -

Question 17

(18) Eleanor: Eleanor Smeal -

Answer 17

And -

Question 18

Flo: …abortion would be a sacrament!

Answer 18

I told ‘em - “Hi y’all, I’m Jane Roe!”

Question 19

(18) Eleanor: … don’t think so.

Answer 19

I saw Kate Michelman, I said - “Hi Kate! Great lookin’ pin!”

Question 20

(19) Kate: … In case you didn’t know.

Answer 20

Well ain’t you the articulate one?

Question 21

(20) Sarah: … completely undermines what Roe -

Answer 21

Finally, I got to eat with them sorority girls and Eleanor Smeal told me -

Question 22

(21) Eleanor: … that’s not ladylike.

Answer 22

And I said, “Ladylike? Take my fork and comb your legs! Only one of them elitist bitches -