Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the pervasive experiences of oppression that women face, emphasizing their psychological impact.
Mary Daly's quote underscores the deep-rooted and often unrecognized violence and oppression that women experience throughout their lives. By comparing women's experiences to that of a 'battered woman' on a psychic level, she invites us to acknowledge the collective trauma and resilience of women confronting societal injustices, thus prompting a shift in awareness and activism against gender-based violence.
In practice
During a women's rights seminar, to emphasize the necessity of recognizing psychological trauma in advocacy.
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
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.
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.
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.
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