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April 13

This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

    1825: Julia Amanda Sargent Wood born

    1854: Lucy Craft Laney born

    1886: Ethel Leginskea born

    1893: Nella Larsen born

    1909: Eudora Welty born

Quote for Today

    Radio, sewing machine, book ends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp -- peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

    -- Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O."

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