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. Mary Daly More Quotes by Mary Daly More Quotes From Mary Daly 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 Mary Daly equalityhumorfunny You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit. Mary Daly feministbraverycourage 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. Mary Daly imaginationinspiringlong God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. Mary Daly ignoranceevilmen 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'. Mary Daly etymologysinroots 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. Mary Daly malesfeministthinking 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. Mary Daly feministwholeway 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! Mary Daly derivativesbuddhismislam Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was. Mary Daly silenceorderpast 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. Mary Daly psychicsinsultingself It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. Mary Daly swimminglike-youswim 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. Mary Daly lawmenpeople Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy. Mary Daly gynecologistsdoctorspatient 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. Mary Daly craftsrolesmen Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. Mary Daly spiritualfaithgod Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. Mary Daly changedoeinspiring Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. Mary Daly feministrevolutionkeys 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. Mary Daly assessmentimaginationthinking If God is male, then the male is God. Mary Daly malesifs The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves. Mary Daly rootedliberationlanguage
