295 Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

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.

There’s still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that’s so explicitly feminist and so angry – when we’re still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry – is a real revelation for young women.

Well, part of the thing is, like, what’s the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they’re like...

My original goal in the ’90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can’t believe the media telling you that it doesn’t need to exist and that it doesn’t exist.

I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I’m already running a couple small businesses. I’m a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn’t be good at it.

I don’t appreciate it when women – or men – bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that are meant to keep people turned off from it. It’s like, “All you have to do is Wikipedia feminism to know that it’s not about man-hating – so shut up.” That makes me annoyed.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I’d choose the friendships at this point.

I don’t want to waste the precious moments I have, and I’ve felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

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.