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An Open Letter to Mary Daly | Audre Lorde (1979)

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An Open Letter to Mary Daly Audre Lorde (1979) The following letter was written to Mary Daly, author of Gyn/Ecology,* on May 6, 1979. Four months later, having received no reply, I open it to the community of women. —Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider DEAR MARY, With a moment of space in this wild and bloody spring,** I want to speak the words I have had in mind for you. I had hoped that our paths might cross and we could sit down together and talk, but this has not happened. I wish you strength and satisfaction in your eventual victory over the repressive forces of the University in Boston. I am glad so many women attended the speak—out, and hope that this show of joined power will make more space for you to grow and be within. Thank you for having Gyn/Ecology sent to me. So much of it is full of import, useful, generative, and provoking. As in Beyond God The Father, many of your analyses are strengthening and helpful to me. Therefore, it is because of what you have given to me in the p

An Open Letter to Mary Daly | Audre Lorde (1979) An Open Letter to Mary Daly Audre Lorde (1979) The following letter was written to Mary Daly, author of Gyn/Ecology,* on May 6, 1979. Four months later, having received no reply, I open it to the community of women. —Audre Lorde in Sister Outsider DEAR MARY, With a moment of space in this wild and bloody spring,** I want to speak the words I have had in mind for you. I had hoped that our paths might cross and we could sit down together and talk, but this has not happened. I wish you strength and satisfaction in your eventual victory over t

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