Mary Daly - Women Quotes

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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.

Mary Daly

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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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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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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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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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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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