Currents Quote by Amanda Palmer

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,…

— Madonna Ciccone

The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

— Amina Mama

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

— Madonna Ciccone

Women are powerful and dangerous.

— Audre Lorde

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we…

— Arianna Huffington

“As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel…

— Shuli Barzilai

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

— Carol P. Christ

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

— Antonio Guterres

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of…

— Andrea Dworkin

There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long…

— Rebecca Traister

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

— Donatella Versace