Priya Parker
speaker
346 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2019
last heard 8 Sep
Priya Parker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.
Appearances
You're making it a shared question.
And part of what's so beautiful in that cross-generational, intergenerational conversation is this older woman is saying something surprising, counterintuitive.
Wow, we can have a different story about aging?
Wow.
It's okay to be a woman and love all parts of my body?
Wow.
What a beautiful question.
Yes.
Both.
Both.
I think the idea of an infinite universe excites me at some level because of its dynamism and its kind of full of possibility and ability to hold all.
But it also scares me or makes me feel sad because meaning lies in specificity.
Because power lies within constraints.
I went to a beautiful play recently at the Public Theater called Sumo about the ancient hierarchical art form of sumo wrestling.
And in the playwright's letter, she quoted this artist who I forget his name, but he said...
Art needs an address, meaning like it needs a body.
You can't just – you explore ideas, right?
It needs a frame.
You explore ideas of masculinity and hierarchy and identity and norms through six men in a sumo den trying to –
rise through the rings of this art form in a sweaty theater on Sixth Avenue?
Showing 261–280 of 346 · page 14 of 18
← Previous
Next →