"Every woman who has come to consciousness can……" — Mary Daly
"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."
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Mary Daly
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26 Quotes by Mary Daly
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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
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If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will…
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We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.
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What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that…
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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…
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There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is…
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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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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
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The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves....
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I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding…
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It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
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If God is male, then the male is God.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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