Amanda Palmer Quotes

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

Its hard, its almost natural, not to hate, but to think, 'I'm better than you, so I can't work with you' that's the status quo of how females act. I don't want it to be like that; that's why I like working with other females.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

You always hear about how women working together will catfight.