American - Theologian | October 16, 1928 -
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
Mary Daly
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Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
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Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
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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 deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.
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Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
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For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.
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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 Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
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Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
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