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" I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground. "
Mary Daly
New
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" Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics. "
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" Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. "
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" Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back. "
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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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" Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. "
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" I was honestly a Catholic. "
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" It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. "
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" Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.' "
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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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" The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See. "
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" The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create. "
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" Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. "
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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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Ideas
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" 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. "
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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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" 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 have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions. "
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" I hate the Bible. I always did. "
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Did
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" I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know. "
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Theology
Out
Know
" I don't want to be a fulfilled woman. "
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Fulfilled
Want
Woman
" Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves. "
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