Female Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

10 Female quotes by Kathleen Hanna

When you need a quick pulse on a punk poet’s view of womanhood, these ten excerpts deliver the heart of her message. Hanna’s energetic phrasing and unapologetic stance come through clearly, offering a concise yet powerful snapshot.

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I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

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

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

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I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection…

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What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first…

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

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There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so…

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Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't…

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I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a…

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I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other…

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

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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.

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If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more…

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I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting.…

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

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