Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the struggle for women to reclaim their voice and identity in a patriarchal society.
Mary Daly's quote signifies the historical oppression of women, particularly in the realm of language and identity. By stating that women have had the power of naming stolen from them, Daly emphasizes the need for women to reclaim their narratives and assert their own identities in a world that has often silenced them. This reflects a broader issue of empowerment and the importance of women finding their voices in society.
In practice
In a speech advocating for women's rights.
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.
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.
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 need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'
Improving your life doesnβt have to be about changing everything β itβs about making changes that count.
We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.
My theory is this: Rather than having commentaries from the cheap seats, get involved and see what you can do. What can you do around your own community, within your own family, to try to improve race relations in our country? I think this is a responsibility that we all have as citizens.
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.
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