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March 17

This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

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    The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

    Virginia Woolf

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