Mary Daly Quotes

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

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.

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

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

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 the whole way.

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

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.

If God is male, then the male is God.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

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 space. There has to be a separate space for women.

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

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

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.