# Quote — Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology

> [W]omen under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.

- Author: [Mary Daly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly.md)
- Book: [Gyn/Ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/gynecology.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Daly#Gyn/Ecology:_The_Metaethics_of_Radical_Feminism_(1978%E2%80%931990)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/gynecology/w-omen-under-phallocratic

## More from this book

> 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)

> 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)

> Hags do not haggle over "equality," for we know there is no equality among unique Selves. Noting that one definition of the term equal is "capable of meeting the requirements of a situation or a task," Jan Raymond observes that what each asks of the other is that she be equal to the task at hand.... Crones expect and en-courage each other to become sister pyrotechnists, building the fire that is fueled by Fury, the fire that warms and lights the place where we can each have a loom of our own, where we can spin and weave the tapestries of Crone-centered creation.

p. 384 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-daly/gynecology/hags-do-not.md)