295 Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

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

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.

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don’t feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

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 to happen, and I’m letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

I didn’t go to high school, I didn’t go to college, I didn’t have women’s studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it’s still growing.

My mom wasn’t, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you’re able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside – small things like that can be absolutely huge.

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you’re going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you’re never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don’t fail over and over and over again.

It’s the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can’t dictate what artwork we’re supposed to like or what comedy we’re supposed to laugh at.