“Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.”
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Feminist theologian and preeminent feminist philosopher and theorist.
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“Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.”
“Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.”
“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 t...”
“The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.”
“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 futuris...”
“Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.”
“I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.”
“Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing...”
“Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.”
“I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.”
“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...”
“'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.”
“For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.”
“Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.”
“Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.”
“Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.”
“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...”
“I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.”
“Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.”
“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 real...”