Mary Daly Quotes

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

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

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Hags do not haggle over "equality," for we know there is no equality among unique Selves. Noting that one definition of the term equal is "capable of meeting the requirements of a situation or a task," Jan Raymond observes that what each asks of the other is that she be equal to the task at hand.... Crones expect and en-courage each other to become sister pyrotechnists, building the fire that is fueled by Fury, the fire that warms and lights the place where we can each have a loom of our own, where we can spin and weave the tapestries of Crone-centered creation.

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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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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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Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolproof of solutions, namely, Mister-ectomy.

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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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Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

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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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If God is male, then the 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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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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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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The word [androgyny] is misbegotten—conveying something like John Travolta and Farrah Fawcett-Majors scotch-taped together.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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As a creative crystallizing of the movement beyond the state of Patriarchal Paralysis, this book is an act of Dis-possession; and hence, in a sense beyond the limitations of the label anti-male, it is absolutely Anti-androcrat, A-mazingly Anti-male, Furiously and Finally Female.

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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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