Amanda Palmer Quotes

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

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

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

This is our historical task … To make evident that the category “woman” as well as the category “man” are political and economic categories and not eternal ones. Our aim is to suppress men as a class, not through a genocidal, but a political struggle. Once the class “man” disappears, “woman” as a class will disappear as well, for there are no slaves without masters.

We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are changing invisibly underneath our feet. I am playing catch up. Maybe we all are.

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.

Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

I think women can save civilization.

I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.