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 Copy Share Image
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
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. — Mary Daly Copy Share
