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The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘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, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
— Mary Daly
Tags: sin, religion, patriarchy, life, feminism, etymology, christianity, carpe-diem

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Radical feminism is still threatening.
— 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.
— Mary Daly
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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
— Mary Daly
Tags: religious, substitute, experience, work
I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.
— Mary Daly
Tags: because, out, study, know
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
— Mary Daly
Tags: always, losing, think, women
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