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‘No bolt fell on our audacious heads.’ Concord Museum features women who blazed a path to today By John Laidler Globe Correspondent,Updated May 7, 2021, 2:49 p.m. Email to a Friend This outfit is a style worn by suffragists, such the women in this 1917 photo taken in New York.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff In 1848, pioneering feminist Margaret Fuller insisted that “every arbitrary barrier” to women’s progress be tossed aside, declaring, “We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.” The pronouncement by Fuller, a leader in the transcendentalist movement centered in Concord, succinctly described the vision of the then incipient women’s rights movement. Seen from afar, it also captures the spirit of centuries of Concord women — from reformers and artists to writers and athletes — who have helped redefine perceptions of what women can be and do.

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