Kathleen Hanna quotes - page 2

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing. (Kathleen Hanna)
I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do. View quote
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I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. View quote
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Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude. View quote
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I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art. View quote
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I just write what I want to write. View quote
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I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime. View quote
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Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy. View quote
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Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you. View quote
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I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do! View quote
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Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes. (Kathleen Hanna)
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. View quote
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I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change. View quote
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If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point. View quote
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So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? View quote
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I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed. View quote
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I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring! View quote
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I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls. View quote
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Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Kathleen Hanna)
I realized that was a pretty radical thing to do, because if you're present, you're going to be different every time. You're not going to give everybody what they want, which is the cardboard character. But you will give those five people there who get it what they want, because they'll be like, "I could totally do that." Whatever crazy shit they have in their heads. Maybe they'll realize, if she's getting away with it, maybe I can totally get away with this thing that I think is better. View quote
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