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
Interpretation
The quote highlights the absurdity of seeking equality in a fundamentally patriarchal or discriminatory context.
Mary Daly's quote draws a powerful parallel between the struggles for equality faced by women and those faced by Black individuals. By comparing a woman's plea for equality in a male-dominated church to a Black person's demand for equality within the Ku Klux Klan, she underlines that such a demand is not only unreasonable but also highlights the deep-seated injustices present in these institutions. It emphasizes that true equality cannot be found in environments that are inherently oppressive and discriminatory.
In practice
This quote could be used during a women's rights rally to emphasize the need for equal rights.
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.
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.
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
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