TIL American women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) argued in her landmark essay 'On the Equality of the Sexes' in part by highlighting women's "talent for slander" to show women's power of "creative faculty"

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/livingrev/equality/text5/sargent.pdf
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