Kathleen Hanna

Young girls getting into feminism.

— Kathleen Hanna

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

— Kathleen Hanna

I just write what I want to write.

— Kathleen Hanna

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

— Kathleen Hanna

Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

— Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

— Kathleen Hanna

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the…

— Kathleen Hanna

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

— Kathleen Hanna

I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm…

— Kathleen Hanna

To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of…

— Kathleen Hanna

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the…

— Kathleen Hanna

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I…

— Kathleen Hanna

I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into…

— Kathleen Hanna

For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone.…

— 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

If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and…

— Kathleen Hanna

It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you…

— Kathleen Hanna

Me and my friends in high school were the only girls who went to hardcore shows. It was three of us, and…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini…

— Kathleen Hanna

My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Kathleen Hanna

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna