Mary Daly Quotes

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• If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

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  Inspiring, Long, Imagination

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

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  Courage, Bravery, Feminist

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• I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

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  Funny, Humor, Equality

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• If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.

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  Thinking, Feminist, Males

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• I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

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  Feminist, Way, Whole

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• God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

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  Ignorance, Men, Evil

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.49, Beacon Press

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• The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

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  Roots, Etymology, Sin

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• It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

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  Swimming, Swim, Like You

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• Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

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  Past, Order, Silence

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.150, Beacon Press

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• I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

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  Buddhism, Islam, Derivatives

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• Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

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  Self, Psychics, Insulting

  Mary Daly (2016). “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism”, p.307, Beacon Press

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• Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

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  Names, Use, World

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.

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  Men, Crafts, Roles

  "Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (New Intergalactic Introduction)". Book by Mary Daly, revised edition (p. 26), 1990.

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• one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

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  Men, Law, People

  Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

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  Language, Liberation, Rooted

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.31, Beacon Press

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• Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

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  Keys, Feminist, Revolution

  Mary Daly (2016). “Quintessence...Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

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  Doctors, Gynecologists, Patient

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• It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

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  Art, Creative, God Image

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.48, Beacon Press

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• Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

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  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• If God is male, then the male is God.

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  Males, Ifs

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

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  Thinking, Assessment, Imagination

  Mary Daly (1993). “Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage”, Womens PressLtd

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• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

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  Change, Inspiring, Doe

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a reality called women's space. There has to be a separate space for women.

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  Reality, Men, Space

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• Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

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  Integrity, Self, Creating

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• We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

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  Science, Rivers, Environmental

  Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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