Kathleen Hanna

Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when they're…

— Kathleen Hanna

Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of…

— Kathleen Hanna

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts…

— Kathleen Hanna

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…

— Kathleen Hanna

It's not like somewhere along the way I decided to be a total formalist in terms of music and to not care…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be,…

— Kathleen Hanna

The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of…

— Kathleen Hanna

I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m…

— Kathleen Hanna

I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb…

— Kathleen Hanna

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and…

— Kathleen Hanna

I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that…

— Kathleen Hanna

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a…

— Kathleen Hanna

Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was…

— Kathleen Hanna

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of…

— Kathleen Hanna

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…

— Kathleen Hanna

It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government,…

— Kathleen Hanna