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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.

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Kathleen Hanna
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: November 12
Film Actor
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Portland
Oregon
Julie Ruin
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Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.
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Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.
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You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.
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