Occupation: Philosopher Birth: October 16, 1928 Death: January 3, 2010
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 ima….
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all..
Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. ….
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 urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism….
Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversa….
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse..
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was..
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..
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..
The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves..
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics..
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..
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 sp….
If God is male, then the male is God..
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 w….
It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging..
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 [….