Inga Muscio Quotes

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally. Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. Underneath almost all those attacks are the words: get back, get back to where you once belonged.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so…

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

Slutwalk

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

Sexism is real.

I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to a place where I've broken down a lot of those doors.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.