Mary Daly

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.

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.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

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.

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.

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

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.