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This is a statue at the Massachusetts State House of the formidable Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), a Puritan spiritual adviser, religious reformer and a founder of Portsmouth, R.I.
“The clear lesson of New England's history is that when there are not enough suitable men around to run the world, women are perfectly capable of doing so. “
— Wallace Stegner (1909-1993), American novelist, short-story writer and environmentalist