Inga Muscio Quotes

• Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

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  Powerful, Knowing, Body

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.64, Seal Press

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• If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

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  Heart, Animal, Hair

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• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

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  Grief, Sadness, Joy

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• What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

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  Cheating, Lying, Heart

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• Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

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  Ignorance, Dynamics, Violence

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.91, Seal Press

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• Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

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  Ignorance, Color, Voice

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.137, Seal Press

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• We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

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  Believe, Healing, Medicine

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.50, Seal Press

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• As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.

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  Appreciation, Islands, Turtles

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• Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

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  Life, Book, Culture

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• Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups

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  Hiccups, Masturbation, Cures

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.54, Seal Press

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• Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

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  Celebration, Oppression, Gender

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• Have a nice, cuntlovin' day.

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  Nice

  Inga Muscio (2009). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

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  Love Is, Two, Flow

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• What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

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  Thinking, Years, What If

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.277, Seal Press

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• It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

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  Men, People, Age

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.56, Seal Press

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• Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

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  Mean, Abuse, Violence

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• I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

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  Dark, Sense Of Humor, Rich

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