Explore Quotes by Mary Daly

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

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 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!

If God is male, then the male is God.

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

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.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

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

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

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 imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

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'.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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