Feminism Quote by Mary Daly Download Open image “Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.” — Mary Daly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feminism Naming Naming Stolen Stolen Women Women power
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women! — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user.… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms. — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
And since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman..I wonder why we take… — Tupac Copy Share Image
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost — Lucy Stone 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… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“This story is not at all an uncommon one in tech circles, including gaming. The popular notion is that women who get ahead must… — Bailey Poland Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image