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The Famous Quotations That Aren't From Whom You Think

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In putting together the Yale Book of Quotations, Fred Shapiro discovered that a number of famous quotes and phrases that were attributed to famous men were actually the work of a much less famous woman. Shapiro writes about the phenomenon in the latest issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine.

This segment aired on February 23, 2011.

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