Best Quotes by Mary Daly (Top 10)
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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 [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, "to be' in the fullest sense is "to sin'.
Mary Daly
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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 equality in the Ku Klux Klan
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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 imagination.
Mary Daly
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God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Mary Daly
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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 wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.
Mary Daly
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Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
Mary Daly
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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.
Mary Daly
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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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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly
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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly