Mary Daly Quotes

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

- Mary Daly

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.

- Mary Daly

Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'

- Mary Daly

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

- Mary Daly

Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.

- Mary Daly

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

- Mary Daly

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

- Mary Daly

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

- Mary Daly

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.

- Mary Daly

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.

- Mary Daly

Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.

- Mary Daly

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

- Mary Daly

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.

- Mary Daly

I was honestly a Catholic.

- Mary Daly

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

- Mary Daly

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

- Mary Daly

For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.

- Mary Daly

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

- Mary Daly

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

- Mary Daly

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

- Mary Daly

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

- Mary Daly

Radical feminism is still threatening.

- Mary Daly

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.

- Mary Daly

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

- Mary Daly

I hate the Bible. I always did.

- Mary Daly