God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Mary DalyEvery 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.
Mary DalyI 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!
Mary DalyFew gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.
Mary DalyI know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.
Mary Dalyone 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.
Mary DalyThere 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.
Mary DalyTokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
Mary DalyI 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
Mary DalyWomen 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.
Mary DalyMale religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.
Mary Dalycut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.
Mary DalyThe word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
Mary DalyIf 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.
Mary DalyWhat 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.
Mary Daly