Mary Daly Quotes on Freedom
Mary Daly was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian who taught for more than thirty years at Boston College, where she insisted on the right to teach women-only courses. This page collects quotes attributed to Mary Daly on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“To exist humanly is to name the self, the world, and God.”
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Attributed to Mary Daly:
“The story of women is a story of survival within a culture that has tried to silence it.”
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Attributed to Mary Daly:
“Be-ing is verb, not noun; the self is realized in active becoming.”
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“(Women's Liberation) ... is an ontological, spiritual revolution, pointing beyond the idolatries of sexist society and sparking creative action in and toward transcendence. The becoming of women implies universal human becoming. It has everything to do with the search for ultimate meaning and reality which some would call God. p. 6”
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