232 Quotes by Amanda Palmer

I think you can’t have this discussion and you can’t have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They’re holding the other side of the bag.

When you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect with them. You’re too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

The pattern’s laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you’ve got the needle I guess that’s the point in the end.

The perfect tools aren’t going to help us if we can’t face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

What’s important is that I absorb, listen, talk, connect, help, and share. Constantly.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I’m seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

Thank God my best friend’s a therapist.

I think I’ve been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don’t show.