About Mary Daly

Mary Dalywas an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a “radical lesbian feminist”, taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years.

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‘God’s plan’ is often a front for men’s plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

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

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

Why indeed must ‘God’ be a noun? Why not a verb – the most active and dynamic of all.

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

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

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)

I had explained that a woman’s asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person’s demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

Mary Daly

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian (1928-2010)