295 Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

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.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that things are a lot more permeable. It’s not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can’t show ourselves not being perfect.

Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don’t expect that. It’s just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there’s success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that’s kind of all I can really care about.

Art revolves around creating something that isn’t there.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.

It’s so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music – which is something young people are always really interested in – would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

I get emails every day from people saying, “I never heard your music. I don’t know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I hope you’re feeling better. More power to you.” It just shows you, I don’t know, how generous and wonderful people can be.