Kathleen Hanna

I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my…

— 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 am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be…

— 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 talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism…

— Kathleen Hanna

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things…

— Kathleen Hanna

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…

— Kathleen Hanna

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a…

— Kathleen Hanna

I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would…

— Kathleen Hanna

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white…

— Kathleen Hanna

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying…

— Kathleen Hanna

Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist…

— Kathleen Hanna

Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

— Kathleen Hanna

I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— 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

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

— 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

Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world?…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Kathleen Hanna

I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And…

— Kathleen Hanna

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have…

— Kathleen Hanna