I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?
Amanda PalmerRead
In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.
Interpretation
Empower young women to embrace their strength and express themselves rather than confining them to societal expectations.
This quote by Amanda Palmer highlights the importance of empowering young women with the tools and confidence to face challenges head-on. It criticizes the restrictive societal norms that often seek to silence or diminish women's voices, urging for a supportive environment where they can freely express themselves and confront the world unabashedly.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech at a women's empowerment event.
I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?
There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.
It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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