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Women Quotes by Mary Daly

8 Women quotes by Mary Daly

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Across eight brief lines, Mary Daly offers her philosophical take on the experience of womanhood.

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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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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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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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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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I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at…

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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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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

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Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative…

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You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

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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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I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

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You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

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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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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…

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I hate the Bible. I always did.

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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…

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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…

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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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