Kathleen Hanna Quotes

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.

I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.

I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.

We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.

Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"].

You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.

I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?

My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

Popularity is totally overrated.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

I just write what I want to write.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.