Kathleen Hanna Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Growing Up, Men, Goal

• Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Feminism, Verbs, Activity

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

• I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Feminism, Interest

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

• I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that are meant to keep people turned off from it. It's like, "All you have to do is Wikipedia feminism to know that it's not about man-hating - so shut up." That makes me annoyed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Stupid, Hate, Men

• I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

• Young girls getting into feminism.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Feminism, Young

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

• There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Views, People, Feminism

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

• My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Political, Feminism, Conviction

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

• Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Space, Feminism, Underground Music

• 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.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Feminism, Connections, Cry

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

• 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.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Feminism, Internet

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

• Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt so lucky to have access to the feminism that came before me. To have younger people take what me and my friends have done, and to say 'We have access to that, but we're going to put that through our own Internet generation filter and we're going to make it into something that speaks to us and is a lot smarter.'

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Feminist, Feminism

  "Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

• My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Believe, College, Media

  "Kathleen Hanna Talks THE PUNK SINGER, How the Documentary Came Together, Reliving Her Journey While Fighting Illness, and Commentary on Miley Cyrus". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 30, 2013.

• My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mom, Dad, Stupid

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

• What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Feminism, Age, Albums

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

• Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Gay, Winning, Feminism

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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