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For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.
β€” Mary Daly
Tags: try, church, black, change

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The word β€˜sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root β€˜es-,’ meaning β€˜to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, β€˜to be’ in the fullest sense is β€˜to sin'.
β€” Mary Daly
Tags: sin, religion, patriarchy, life, feminism, etymology, christianity, carpe-diem
Radical feminism is still threatening.
β€” Mary Daly
Tags: radical, feminism, still
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.
β€” Mary Daly
Tags: men, time, sexy, women
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
β€” Mary Daly
Tags: religious, substitute, experience, work
I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.
β€” Mary Daly
Tags: because, out, study, know
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