Quotes from Mary Daly

I was honestly a Catholic.

If God is male, then the male is God.

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

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

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

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.

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

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

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

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

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

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

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

Radical feminism is still threatening.

I hate the Bible. I always did.

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 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.

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

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

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.

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