Mary Daly Quotes

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• It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
• If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary…
• We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.
• What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a reality called women's…
• 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]…
• 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…
• 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…
• God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
• Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
• The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves....
• I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux…
• It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
• If God is male, then the male is God.
• I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h…
• I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go…
• Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.
• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
• If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human…
• Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
• Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

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