“I'm trying to name something that
can only be recognized by women who are seizing back our power. But the words
have been stolen from us—even though perhaps they were originally our
words—they're our words, but they've been reversed and twisted and shrunken. I
see myself as a pirate, plundering and smuggling back to women that which has
been stolen from us. But it hasn't simply been stolen; it's been stolen and
reversed. For example, the christian trinity is the triple goddess reversed.
The trinity is aptly described as a closed triangle. It doesn't go anywhere.
It's clonehood.” ~ Mary Daly (Interview with EnlightenNext magazine,
Fall-Winter 1999)
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
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