Mary Daly
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.Collection: Space
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.Collection: God
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.Collection: Power
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.Collection: Space
Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.Collection: Women
I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.Collection: Future
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.Collection: God
I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.Collection: Women
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.Collection: Courage
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.Collection: Courage
Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.Collection: Music
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.Collection: Religion
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.
I hate the Bible. I always did.
I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.
I was honestly a Catholic.
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.
I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.
Radical feminism is still threatening.
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Inspiring
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 KlanCollection: Funny
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Feminist
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.Collection: Ignorance
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'.Collection: Roots
It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.Collection: Swimming
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.Collection: Past
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!Collection: Buddhism
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.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Men
The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.Collection: Language
Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.Collection: Doctors
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.Collection: Thinking
If God is male, then the male is God.Collection: Males
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Reality
Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.Collection: Integrity
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.Collection: Science
cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.Collection: Knowledge
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.Collection: Space
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.Collection: Moving
I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.Collection: Mistake