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I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

Kathleen Hanna

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Kathleen Hanna
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: November 12
Film Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Portland
Oregon
Julie Ruin
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While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.
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Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.
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I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
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Popularity is totally overrated.
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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.
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I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.
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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.
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Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?
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The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or role models is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.
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I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.
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In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
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I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
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We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. I'm with her, I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.
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