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I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.
Amanda Palmer
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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you.
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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.
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When you trust people to help you, they often do.
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Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've sold, looking at the venue size you're selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.
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You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.
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I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.
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Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.
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Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.
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The cool thing too, as you get older, you get way better at identifying who's an ally and who isn't. And who has good, positive, let's make all this sh*t better and let's try to have fun and fix sh*t people as opposed to let's sit around and b*tch and berate people.
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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
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There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.
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If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.
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You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
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Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.
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Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
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I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
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It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.
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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.
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I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
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