Mary Daly Quotes

I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

I am a woman above everything else.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

I want to inspire young girls and let them know that we are all goddesses inside and out.

I've been kind of embracing my own power and really getting in touch with my inner goddess.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.