295 Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

It takes your mind off things when there’s a cat in your lip and he’s purring while you’re petting him.

Just because you’re wearing a goofy hat doesn’t make it performance art.

I can’t constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it’s a lie.

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.

I’m lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I’m grateful to be a witness to that. It’s horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense?

There’s comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I’ve seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It’s uncomfortable and scary and you realize it’s the punkest performance you’ve ever witnessed.

I’m so language-based and I’m so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

I’ve always been like, “Look, you’re going to die and it’s not going to matter after you die that you got out onstage and bombed.”