Women Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

9 Women quotes by Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna’s words on women pulse with the urgency of her punk‑feminist roots. Even in a compact collection, her verses echo the call for empowerment and the raw honesty of lived experience.

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

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

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

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When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up…

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

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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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Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as…

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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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It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in…

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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 angry -…

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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…

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

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I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and…

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Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in…

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When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's…

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I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty…

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I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped…

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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 and these…

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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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You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the…

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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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