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title: "2 Divide Quotes By Inga Muscio"
description: "2 Divide quotes by Inga Muscio. Plus more from Inga Muscio and more Divide sayings from other authors."
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> [Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/words-outlive-people-institutions-civilizations-words-spur-images/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b2/inga-muscio-14537_associations_words-outlive-people-institutions-civili_121516.jpg)

> [“In school we learn that one of the best survival strategies is being part of a clique . With our friends, we create a little, tiny world with codes for conduct, morality, dress, communication, ethnicity and sexuality. We then learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/in-school-we-learn-that-one-of-the-best-survival-strategies-is-being/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/inga-muscio-14537_character_in-school-we-learn-that-one-of-the-best_2029424.jpg)

## Other authors on Divide

## More by Inga Muscio

> [Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/words-outlive-people-institutions-civilizations-words-spur-images/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/love-is-a-positive-symbiotic-reciprocal-flow-between-two-or-more/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/masturbation-is-an-absolutely-peerless-cure-for-the-hiccups/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/it-s-like-suddenly-in-the-middle-ages-people-figured-men-should-be-in/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/i-have-a-really-dark-rich-thick-sense-of-humor/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [“Sadly though, the general feelings among straight men is, ‘I ain’t no fucking faggot, so keep clear of my ass.’ Thus, a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/sadly-though-the-general-feelings-among-straight-men-is-i-ain-t-no/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/do-not-under-any-circumstances-put-this-book-down-and-turn-on-the/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/women-of-color-have-no-call-to-trust-white-women-until-white-women/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [“Moving from phonetics to etymology, ‘vagina’ originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain’t got no vagina.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/moving-from-phonetics-to-etymology-vagina-originates-from-a-word/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [“I grew up in a relatively small town...Cruising up and down the main street in a car, going to the mall and attending drunken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/i-grew-up-in-a-relatively-small-town-cruising-up-and-down-the-main/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/without-honoring-whores-we-cannot-truly-understand-and-transcend-the/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [“People seem to have a hard time responding to a woman's sexuality without having the desire to literally touch it. I guess in some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/people-seem-to-have-a-hard-time-responding-to-a-woman-s-sexuality/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/ancient-woman-centered-words-and-beliefs-never-like-fall-off-the/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [ “He \[Wilhelm Reich\] challenged the puritanical ideas about sexuality in our culture. In laywoman terms, Reich believed humans store emotions in our muscles. During… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/he-wilhelm-reich-challenged-the-puritanical-ideas-about-sexuality-in/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

> [“Women choose to be catty, cruel, prejudiced, competitive or jealous of each other partly because we grow up learning that negative behavior towards women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inga-muscio/women-choose-to-be-catty-cruel-prejudiced-competitive-or-jealous-of/)

[Inga Muscio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inga-muscio/)

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