295 Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

Don’t get down on yourself that you can’t run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn’t react to things like I was supposed to.

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

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it’s all you talk about.

If people are like, ‘Oh, you’re an icon,’ then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It’s not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

Everybody wasn’t always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn’t it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you’re wasted?

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.

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.

The cool thing about the Internet is that it’s allowing women more access to their own history.