Mary Daly October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010

[Isadora]

Mary Daly was in her 50's when I met her. I was the speaker wrangler for her presentation at the University of Minnesota. I was maybe 30. I flirted with her outrageously and was so thrilled just to be able to carry her notes and water. She indulged my much younger than her adoration.

Besides listening to her with rapt devotion, my favorite memory of her is right before she was going on to speak...I held her notes waiting for her to go on stage. She smiled wickedly at me and ran her finger slowly over my cleavage, took her notes and went on stage. *sigh*

I have read everyone of them several times!:bigcry::bigcry:
The Church and Second Sex
Beyond God the Father
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism,
Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy,
Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language," (My favorite!)
Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage
Quintessence... Realizing the Archiac Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto,
Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big.

All amazing books, from an Amazing person. She indulged a doe eyed, smitten young femme theologian with a flirt and was very kind to me. I wrote a poem about her and will find it using language from Wickedary.

May the fairies carry her to Avalon where young ones will meet her every need and she will walk freely among the apple blossoms.

She (Mary Daly) took great delight in castigating the "eight deadly sins of the fathers": processions, professions, possession, aggression, obsession, assimilation, elimination and fragmentation. "Laugh out loud," she urged, "at their pompous penile processions."

[bonne-maman]

Mary Daly was brave and powerful...Thank you Isadora....

[Isadora]

Wicked Beauty: A Tribute to the Mary’s

Radical relationships reflect
She is who is Earth
She who is healing touch.
She who is be-dazzling
Ready to express her emotions.
She rages and mountains fall.
She engages and all the
Energy of uninhibited joy
Will be released.
She will not forget who
Defiles her body
She will not forgive who
Pollutes her blood
She will not ignore
Who rapes her mind.
She will wrap the molesters
In her body and bury them
As deep as they have
Buried her history.
As deep as they have
Concealed her pixie.
She will leap free of
Flapper confines to meet
Them full faced
Bare breasted
Shielded by her intuition.
She will rise again
Fully empowered by her
Own energy of be-laughing.
She is a lusty wild wicked
Woman sure of her self
Alive with the flow of the
Original Nymph.
She names life and hugs it
To her body enveloping
It in her Elemental spirit.
She leaps in Pure Lust
Spreading her arms
To take in all sensations.
Rubbing the dirt clean as
She heals all her wild body
And transcends fractured
Connections of life
Through be-witching beauty.

[Isadora]

She could swear like a sailor. It was hot.

She was HOT!