Quotes by Daly, Mary




Mary Daly (born 1928) is a radical feminist theologian, a mother of modern feminist theology. Before obtaining doctorates in theology and philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, she recieved her B.A. in English from The College of Saint Rose and her M.A. in English from the Catholic University of America . She taught at Boston College for 33 years, before agreeing to retire as part of a lawsuit settlement with Boston College..

"If God is male, then 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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"Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all."

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"We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister."

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"A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan."

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