Mary Daly
Mary Daly
Mary Dalywas an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Daly retired in 1999, after violating university policy by refusing to allow male students in her advanced women's studies classes. She allowed male students in her introductory class and privately tutored those who wanted to take advanced classes...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 October 1928
creating space feminist
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.
feminist way whole
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.
thinking feminist earth
If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.
keys feminist revolution
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
amount behind faith including incredible initial miracle pat road since support survived
We have a lot of faith that the miracle part is over, since he survived the initial trauma. Pat has a long road ahead, but he has an incredible amount of support behind him, including his many friends at the racetrack.
free name power stolen women
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.
active dynamic indeed verb
Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
mistake enabling ecology
I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.
moving decay movement
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.
past order silence
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.
names world use
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.
language liberation rooted
The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves....
inspiring stolen
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
men law people
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.