Enlightenment

"There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imaginations, and that I will continue to do so."

". . I don't think about men. I really don't care about them."

"What I love is the way women think. And what's so precious about my space at Boston College is that it's women's space. When you get a teacher and students who really want to be with women, and we seize the space and read philosophical works and literature by women, they begin to think like themselves. They feel as if they've come home again. And that is the very groundwork of radical feminism."

"Comparisons with men are beside the point. I think women have a great capacity to realize that interconnectedness [of the entire universe]. I have not seen this in men. There may be exceptions, but I'm not interested in that."

"What I'm concerned with is the war between biophilia and necrophilia. It's love of life versus hatred of life. Necrophilia translates strictly into love of death, or loving the dead—actually f—ing corpses. And in general, patriarchal culture is necrophilic, fixated on hatred of life and love of death."

"'Human being' I got rid of a long time ago. No. Absolutely not. It's alien. I've been through that. I've been there. I've thought about that."

"I hate the 'human species'—look at it! I hate what it is doing to this earth: the invasion of everything. The last two frontiers are the genetic wilderness and the space wilderness; they've colonized everything else. It's a totally invasive mentality—rapist."

"I don't know what 'enlightened' means. It's not a word that's in my vocabulary. This is like a Christian woman being upset over something that Paul said, instead of seeing that of course he's an asshole. He's one more very macho asshole described as a saint and as enlightened, and once you get over that, you get over it."

Mary Daly in her interview with What is Entertainment magazine. She was professor at Boston College, not allowing male students in her class for twenty five years. When they forced her to, she resigned.