Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the struggle for women to reclaim their voice and identity in a patriarchal society.
Mary Daly's quote signifies the historical oppression of women, particularly in the realm of language and identity. By stating that women have had the power of naming stolen from them, Daly emphasizes the need for women to reclaim their narratives and assert their own identities in a world that has often silenced them. This reflects a broader issue of empowerment and the importance of women finding their voices in society.
In practice
In a speech advocating for women's 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.
The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
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