Kathleen Hanna

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

— Kathleen Hanna

I just write what I want to write.

— Kathleen Hanna

Young girls getting into feminism.

— Kathleen Hanna

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

— Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

— Kathleen Hanna

Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind…

— Kathleen Hanna

I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going…

— Kathleen Hanna

I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to…

— Kathleen Hanna

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part…

— Kathleen Hanna

I watch videos on YouTube of bands that I've heard of that I want to check out. And sometimes I don't even…

— Kathleen Hanna

In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing…

— Kathleen Hanna

One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who…

— Kathleen Hanna

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there…

— Kathleen Hanna

Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their…

— Kathleen Hanna

I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a…

— Kathleen Hanna

If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it…

— Kathleen Hanna

I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans,…

— Kathleen Hanna

My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to…

— Kathleen Hanna

I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put…

— Kathleen Hanna

My advice for someone who wants to be creative but has a chronic illness is to think of something that you can…

— Kathleen Hanna

The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really…

— Kathleen Hanna

My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna