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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the struggle women face in overcoming societal misconceptions about femininity and morality.
Mary Daly's quote highlights the challenges women encounter due to cultural myths surrounding feminine evil. She portrays the process of women claiming their identity and breaking free from these misconceptions as a complex but liberating journey, suggesting that overcoming societal deception is essential for women to realize their true selves.
In practice
This quote could be used in a women's empowerment workshop to encourage participants to reclaim their identities.
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!
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
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.
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.
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
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
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