“When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain the way it is, women will not be lauded and applauded for bonding with and helping each other, because it would destroy the world order if women organized; it would topple the whole thing. And so, it makes perfect sense to me that the current order of things would encourage the cat fights and encourage the comparisons and encourage the girl-on-girl hate that you see just being promoted everywhere.” IfsWorldWayLooksWholeHelpingHateOrderGirlFightingPerfectPerspectiveCatCurrentsOrganizedComparisonJust BeingStatus QuoWorld OrderBondingHelping Each Other Author:Amanda Palmer
“It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.” FeelsLooksWinningTasksWho I AmSupposed To BeProgrammingBullshitOngoingDeconstructionDaily Work Author:Amanda Palmer
“I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"” YearsLooksRealJesusBornLinesPovertyFeminismStreetsCoupleWalkingYears AgoDirectClimateClimate ChangeHungerBorn Again Author:Amanda Palmer
“Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.” MenWantFeelsLooksFeelingsWould BeGuyPowerfulFindingsStartingPartnersThreatenedThreateningPowerful WomenLaughable Author:Amanda Palmer
“There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingLooksHelpingArtistEasyCompanyResourcesTheaterRaisesMagazinesHelplessPowerless Author:Amanda Palmer
“How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.” LooksSoundFatsIrritating Author:Amanda Palmer
