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Mary Daly Biography

Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010) was 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.

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

Become, Bravery, Courage, Feminist, Habit

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

Creating, Integrity, Self, Source, Women

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

Courage, Learn, Like You, Swim, Swimming

I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

Buddhism, Derivatives, Islam, Sin, Urge

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

Art, Beings, Creative, God, God Image, Image

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.

Earth, Evolutionary, Feminist, Males, Planet, Thinking

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

Dynamic, Faith, God, Spiritual, Verb

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.

Caretakers, Decided, Men, Reality, Space

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Experience, Religious, Substitutes, Work

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.

Divine, Imagination, Inspiring, Live, Long

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.

Cut, Cutting, Despair, Dominates, Knowledge, Ultimately

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.

Feminist, Way, Whole

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

Change, Doe, Inspiring, Preserve, Tokenism

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

Creating, Feminist, Govern, Place, Space

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

Feminist, Key, Keys, Power, Revolution

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'.

Discovered, Entire, Etymology, Roots, Sin

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.

Free, Name, Names, Use, Women, World

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

Doctors, Gynecologists, Misterectomy, Patient, Patients, Solutions

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

Cover, Evil, Ignorance, Inadequacy, Men, Plans

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.

Come, Insulting, Psychic, Psychics, Self, Violating

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