Feminism provides the most undeviating encounter to the gendered world, as well as to patriarchy, capitalism, and the sexist suppositions that women's dissimilarities from men solidify them intrinsically inferior. As seen in voices of the American nation, Judith Sargent Murray's "On the Equality of the Sexes" written in 1779 advocates women's rights and catalogues women's intellectual, ingenious, civic, and religious accomplishments and strengths. The essay begins in blank verse with the lines, "That minds are not alike, full well I know," and avows at the poem's end that women are proficient of achievement, as "noble passions, swell e'en female hearts." Murray scrutinized the presupposition that men were by Mother Nature superior to women
