Quotes by Mary Daly

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
– Mary Daly
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
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.
– Mary Daly
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
– Mary Daly
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
– Mary Daly
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
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
– Mary Daly
Women have the power of naming stolen from us.
– Mary Daly
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
– Mary Daly
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
– Mary Daly