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Mary Daly
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“... if God is male, then the male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.”
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“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”
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“Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb — the most active and dynamic of all?”
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“... cut 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.”
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“... one 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.”
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“Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.”
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“The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.”
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“The word [androgyny] is misbegotten — conveying something like 'John Travolta and Farrah Fawcett-Majors scotch-taped together.'”
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“Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.”
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“... you become courageous by doing courageous acts.”
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“Work is a substitute 'religious' experience for many workaholics.”
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“Courage is like — it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue. You get it by courageous acts It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”
Mary Daly, U.S. writer, feminist theorist
(1928 - 2010)