“Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you...” — Inga Muscio Quote

“Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.”

“Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.”

“Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.”

“Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.”

“I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.”

“After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.”

“We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.”

“I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.”

“I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.”

“I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.”

“I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.”