Mary Daly Quotes on Knowledge
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 knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“To exist humanly is to name the self, the world, and God.”
Beyond God the Father -
“The word ‘ radical ’ means ‘going to the roots’. It is derived from the Latin radix, meaning root. Radical Feminism goes to the root of oppression and the way out. And I define it as “way of being characterised by (a) an Awesome and Ecstatic sense of Otherness from patriarchal norms and values (b) conscious awareness of the sadosociety ’s sanctions against Radical Feminists (c) moral outrage on be”
Quoted in [ https://philosophynow.org/issues/33 Interview Mary Daly, Philosophy Now, Issue 33, (September/October 2001) -
“The correspondence between the minds of Musing women and the intelligible structures of reality is rooted in our promise, that is, our potential and commitment to evolve, unfold 'together,' in harmony with each other and with all Elemental reality. p. 163”
Wikiquote -
“Someone like Mary Daly doesn't even know how people live-but other women, I think they come from suburban lives or something like that, and no family. That's a certain kind of life but it's not general female life.”
About | 1981 interview anthologized in Conversations with Grace Paley edited by Gerhard Bach and Blaine Hall (1997) -
“I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.”
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism(1978–1990) | p. xxxiii ( New Intergalactic Introduction ).