Mary Daly

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

— Mary Daly

Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

— Mary Daly

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.

— Mary Daly

[W]omen under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.

— Mary Daly

As a creative crystallizing of the movement beyond the state of Patriarchal Paralysis, this book is an act of Dis-possession; and hence, in a sense beyond the limitations of the label anti-male, it is absolutely Anti-androcrat, A-mazingly Anti-male, Furiously and Finally Female.

— Mary Daly

I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.

— Mary Daly

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.

— Mary Daly

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.

— Mary Daly

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

— Mary Daly

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

— Mary Daly