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Kathleen Hanna

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

— Kathleen Hanna time

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

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 war

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

— Kathleen Hanna women

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 power

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

— Kathleen Hanna women

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

— Kathleen Hanna good

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!

— Kathleen Hanna writing

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when they're changing your IV bag or you're having a seizure and they're holding you. And helping you to the bathroom. You know that they love you.

— Kathleen Hanna love

Popularity is totally overrated.

— Kathleen Hanna

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

— Kathleen Hanna love

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

— Kathleen Hanna art

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

— Kathleen Hanna tomorrow

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

— Kathleen Hanna sex

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

— Kathleen Hanna humor

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

— Kathleen Hanna funny

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

— Kathleen Hanna hero

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

— Kathleen Hanna world

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

— Kathleen Hanna life

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

— Kathleen Hanna 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.

— Kathleen Hanna song

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

— Kathleen Hanna love

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

— Kathleen Hanna want

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

— Kathleen Hanna love

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

— Kathleen Hanna people

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonalds to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

— Kathleen Hanna time

Ive always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when youre playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they dont have good PAs and so no one knows what youre singing about.

— Kathleen Hanna good

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