# Mary Daly - Quotes: 21 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly ## Books - [Beyond God the Father](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/beyond-god-the-father.md) — 7 quotes - [Gyn/Ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/gynecology.md) — 7 quotes - [The Church and the Second Sex](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex.md) — 7 quotes ## Recently added quotes > Today, in the light of feminist philosophy of Be-ing, we are aware of the deep connection between women's becoming and the unfolding of cosmic process which some would still call 'God'. p. 18 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex/today-in-the.md) > There is no small irony in the fact that during an age in which opinion of women was so low, some of them were, in fact, members of the hierarchy, whereas in a later and more enlightened age, when the Church itself is urging them to take a more active part in public life, they are completely excluded from the hierarchy. p. 90 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex/there-is-no-small.md) > ...that dream world which is precisely the 'metaphysical world of woman,' the ideal, static woman, who is so much less troublesome than the real article... For the celibate who prefers not to be tied down to a wife, or whose canonical situation forbids marriage, the 'Mary' of his imagination could appear to be the ideal spouse. p. 161 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex/that-dream-world.md) > If women's subordination were really so 'natural,' it would not be necessary to insist so strongly upon it. It would seem that people would not have to be told authoritatively to behave 'naturally. p. 116-117 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex/if-womens-subordination.md) > Women discovering self-actualization in sisterhood in 1975 ... rarely talk of 'partnership' with men, since this term seems to imply ... as if we could glimpse nothing more desirable than an equal slice of the patriarchal pie." p. 41 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex/women-discovering-self-actualization.md) > The question that comes to my mind is, 'What sense does it make to assert that in Christ "There is neither male nor female"? ... But that is the point: it could not mean anything on earth, where there definitely were and are females and males and where that distinction has been overemphasized and distorted, especially in the church. p 22 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex/the-question-that.md) > Briefly, if God is male, then the male is God. p. 38 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/the-church-and-the-second-sex/briefly-if-god.md) > 'God' can be used oppressively against women in a number of ways…[one way is by an] overt manner when theologians proclaim women's subordination to be God's will. The symbol of the Father God, spawned in the human imagination and sustained as plausible by patriarchy, has in turn rendered service to this type of society by making its mechanisms for the oppression of women appear right and fitting. If God in "his" heaven is a father ruling "his" people, then it is in the "nature" of things and according to divine plan and the order of the universe that society be male-dominated. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/beyond-god-the-father/god-can-be-used.md) > To exist humanly is to name the self, the world, and God. The 'method' of the evolving spiritual consciousness of women is nothing less than this beginning to speak humanly - a reclaiming of the right to name. p. 8 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/beyond-god-the-father/to-exist-humanly.md) > This is a demonically double-sided trap, for of course reforms, such as legalization of abortion, aid many women in desperate situations. However, because the "changes" that are achieved are victories in a vacuum, that is, in a totally oppressive social context, they do not essentially free the Female Self but instead function to hide both the fact of continuing oppression and the possibilities for better options and for more radical freedom.... The Labrys of the A-mazing Female Mind must cut through the coverings of these double-sided/multiple-sided situations, dis-covering the context, identifying the more radical problems, yet neglecting none. p. 375 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/gynecology/this-is-a-demonically.md) > It requires a kick in the imagination, a wrenching of tired words, to realize that feminism is the final and therefore the first cause, and that this movement is movement. Realization of this is already the beginning of a qualitative leap in be-ing. For the philosophers of senescence 'the final cause' is in technical reason; it is the Father's plan, an endless flow of Xerox copies of the past. But the final cause that is movement is in our imaginative-cerebral-emotional-active-creative be-ing. p. 190 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/beyond-god-the-father/it-requires-a-kick.md) > Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot. p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/gynecology/hags-live-women.md)