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 — Mary Daly

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

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

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

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. — Mary Daly

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. — Mary Daly

It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors. — Mary Daly

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

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves ... — Mary Daly

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. — Mary Daly

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

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

What men do to trees mirrors what they do to women. — Mary Daly

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

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

If God is male, then the male is God. — Mary Daly

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

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

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

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

You become courageous by doing courageous acts ... Courage is a habit. — Mary Daly