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.
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 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 Daly