Kathleen Hanna Quotes

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

Young girls getting into feminism.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

I've always been like, "Look, you're going to die and it's not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed."

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.

I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows.

I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word "feminist!

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

See who else is interested and join other people's projects that have already started that you like. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel and start your own thing.

I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.