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" I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions. "
Mary Daly
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" Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process. "
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" I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think. "
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" Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds. "
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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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" I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past. "
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" Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess. "
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