Kathleen Hanna Quotes
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I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.
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I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.
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I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.
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It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.
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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
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The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
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A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.
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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 certain traits are female.
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I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?
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We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.
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See who else is interested and join other people's projects that have already started that you like. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel and start your own thing.
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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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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.
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I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around "I'm With Her".
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If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.
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I'm not that interested in female superheroes.
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The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."
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Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
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I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
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In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
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I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
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I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
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People need to stand up, women need to stand up for each other and say, "No you can't kick this person like they're a dog. You can disagree with someone politically, you can have arguments, definitely privilege needs to be discussed in real productive and valid ways. But it's not real criticism if it's just like, "you're a disgusting bad person."
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I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.