Kathleen Hanna Quotes
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 conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.
Quotes to Explore
-
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
-
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
-
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
-
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
-
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
-
With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
-
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
-
I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
-
Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
-
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
-
Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
-
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
-
Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.
-
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
-
That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.
-
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.
-
Am I the greatest? I don't know. I'm the greatest that I can be.
-
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
-
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.
-
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
-
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 conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.
