Feminism Quotes by Mary Daly

16 Feminism quotes by Mary Daly

Mary Daly presents sixteen quotes that interrogate philosophical foundations of gender oppression. The collection provides a concise yet potent glimpse into her critical voice.

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Radical feminism is still threatening.

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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

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Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want…

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I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And…

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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…

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Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.

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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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Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand…

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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…

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What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a…

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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…

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Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as…

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Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction…

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Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a…

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“Another kind of transcendence myth has been dramatization of human life in terms of conflict and vindication. This focuses upon the situation…

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Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

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I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

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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…

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The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

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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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I hate the Bible. I always did.

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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…

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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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