Kathleen Hanna Quotes

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.
Kathleen Hanna

Time, Good, Happen

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.
Kathleen Hanna

Nice, End, Acting

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.
Kathleen Hanna

Men, Power, Girl

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
Kathleen Hanna

Art, Around, Creating

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
Kathleen Hanna

Work, Important, Whatever

I just write what I want to write.
Kathleen Hanna

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.
Kathleen Hanna

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.
Kathleen Hanna

Looking, Culture, Stuff

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.
Kathleen Hanna

Wanted, Hear, Hearing

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
Kathleen Hanna

Art, Made, Else

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
Kathleen Hanna

Fear, Whole, Band

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

Between, Point, Band

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
Kathleen Hanna

Women, Crisis, College

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.
Kathleen Hanna

Good, Looking, Weird

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?
Kathleen Hanna

Women, Why, Violence

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
Kathleen Hanna

Great, Focus, Boring

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.
Kathleen Hanna

Women, Attitude, Another

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.
Kathleen Hanna

Work, Good, Magic

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Nationality: American

Born: November 12, 1969

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