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A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

~ Mary Daly

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

~ Mary Daly

Courage Feminist Key Power Revolution

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

~ Mary Daly

Cover Evil Front God Ignorance Men Often Plan Plans

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

~ Mary Daly

Black Change Church Feminist Klan Like Person Radical Reform Try Trying

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

~ Mary Daly

Beings Creative God Human Human Beings Image Itself Potential

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

~ Mary Daly

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

~ Mary Daly

Active Dynamic God Indeed Most Must Noun Verb Why Why Not

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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

~ Mary Daly

Had Naming Power Stolen Us Women

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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

~ Mary Daly

Experience Many Religious Religious Experience Substitute Work

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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

Almost Almost Everything Back Been Creative Creativity Energies Everything Has-Been Our Patriarchy Religion Stolen Us Want

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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

Artwork Body Despite Feminist Films Institutions Kinds Media Music Organization Other Patriarchal Substantial Well Writings

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

~ Mary Daly

Because Know Out Piety Studied Study Theology Wanted

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I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

~ Mary Daly

Fulfilled Want Woman

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I hate the Bible. I always did.

~ Mary Daly

Always Bible Did Hate

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

~ Mary Daly

Boundary Different Dimensions Living Patriarchy Theory

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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

Classes Ideas Laughed Men Really Repressed Saw Sexy Shut Shut Up Then Think Time Unusual Up Were Women Young Young Men

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I was honestly a Catholic.

~ Mary Daly

Catholic Honestly

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

~ Mary Daly

Breaks Complete Creative Creative Work Ground New Work

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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

About Deep Future Get Had Order Past Think Trying

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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

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