Mary Daly Quotes on Politics
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 politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“If God is male, then the male is God.”
Beyond God the Father -
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:
“Patriarchy is itself the prevailing religion of the entire planet.”
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“The 'self-transcending immanence,' the sense of giving birth to ourselves, the sense of power of being within, which is being affirmed by many women, does not seem to be denoted, imaged adequately pointed to, or perhaps even associated with the term 'God'. p. 208”
The Qualitative Leap Beyond Patriarchal Religion." Quest 1 (Spr 1975)